🥕After after pandemic-era federal policies like the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit & food & school lunch assistance were repealed, the child poverty rate in CA nearly tripled from 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country.
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Farm workers wake up at 2 a.m. in Merced County to get ready to harvest sweet potatoes. They share, "We have to drop off our kids at the babysitter before we leave for the fields. The lack of sleep is tough, but this work feeds our children." #WeFeedYou

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay.

Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

Workers in Kern County CA harvesting vegetables in 90° heat. #WeFeedYou

Trabajadores en el condado de Kern, California, cosechan verduras bajo un calor de 90 grados. #SoyEsencial

My dad worked this crop when the short handled hoe was the norm. Still so brutal. 🙏🏽

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There was thick blankets of snow on the ground, but skeleton crew of 4-5 workers were out thinning dozens of rows of apple trees in upstate NY apple orchards. Farm workers don't get snow days. #WeFeedYou

These farm workers are picking winter strawberries for minimum wage. It's towards the end of the harvest, so the work is slowing down. It was a sunny day, but wind made the temperature seem colder than it was. #WeFeedYou

Chocolate covered strawberries are great to enjoy on #ValentinesDay. Remember, this sweet treat is picked by human hands like Manuel’s, shown making his way through slippery muddy rows. He works by piece rate, so he has to hurry to pick and earn more. #WeFeedYou

My mother did this work. I will never forget her stories of the pain after a days work. 🙏🏽

This back breaking work is only made harder and more dangerous by the smoke and ash. Grateful and indebted to these workers.

Cesar Chavez followed Dr King’s career since the 1950s Montgomery bus boycott. Whenever newspapers carried accounts of #MLK battles, the stories "would jump out of the pages at me," Cesar said. MLK reaffirmed Cesar's commitment to nonviolent struggle & inspired UFW's boycotts. 1/

Gia shared this pic from where farm workers are harvesting carrots in Santa Maria: We pull and bunch carrots. At the end of the day our hands ache from the repetitive motion. I only earn minimum wage, but I am grateful to be in a crew that has a year-round work. #WeFeedYou

Beautiful and heartbreaking essay by my dear friend. We will rebuild together. 🙏🏽💗

Breaking: CA Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a sweeping executive order, protecting fire victims from fraud, making it easier to rebuild by lifting red tape and bureaucratic regulations and implementing tougher penalties for price gouging. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

From a FB post. Hey California friends…my friend’s dog sanctuary in Topanga has burned to the ground. 30 dogs looking for fosters ASAP. Please contact me if you can help, even help for a temporary basis it would do so much . Please call or text me on 248 520 0054

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin