Legal Commentary

Structural Unemployment: Americans Lack Farm Labor Skills

By Big Tent Democrat

AP:

Most Americans simply don't apply for jobs harvesting fruits and vegetables in California, where one of every eight people is out of work, according to government data for a federal seasonal farmworker program analyzed by The Associated Press.

And the few unemployed Americans who apply through official channels usually don't stay on in the fields, a point comedian Stephen Colbert — dressed as a field hand — has alluded to in recent broadcasts on Comedy Central.

Anyone familiar with farm work can tell you - it is impossibly taxing physically. No one would wish it on their kids.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).