On February 19, 2021, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Representative Linda Sanchez (DCA) introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 in the Senate and House, respectively. The bill, if passed, would create a path to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented
immigrants…
Letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, of which FJ is a member, to House and Senate Leadership, on federal policing priorities and the need for statutory police reform.
Summary of policy developments that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on green tobacco sickness in migrant farmworker communities. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to green tobacco sickness and pesticides in migratory and farmworker communities.
A coalition letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from more than 125 organizations, urging him to preserve existing protections in the rules and to move forward with full implementation and enforcement.
Written in collaboration with Harvard's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, this paper discusses the current state of telehealth in the United States, opportunities that telehealth provides for improving access to health care for rural residents, and the unique position that promotores de salud or community health workers occupy as potential facilitators of telehealth technologies in rural farmworker communities.
Summary of policy development that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on childhood obesity in migrant farmworker communities. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to childhood obesity in migratory and farmworker communities.
An issue brief that summarizes the effects of housing quality on farmworker health. Includes information on documentation and data, housing regulations, and clinical considerations.
A comprehensive report that summarizes research on the living conditions of farmworkers in the U.S. The report was compiled for and presented at the Farmworker Housing Quality and Health Symposium, hosted by Farmworker Justice, on Nov. 11, 2014.
Summary of policy development that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on the intersection of technology and health care in farmworker communities. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to mobile technology in migratory and farmworker communities.
Summary of policy developments that affect farmworker health and access to health care. This issue focuses on pesticides and revisions to the Worker Protection Standard. Also includes Eye on Farmworker Health, a summary of academic research related to pesticides in Latino, migratory, and farmworker communities.