California farmworkers bring in wine-grape crop in a cloud of smoke

With wildfires still blazing in Northern California and 222,000 acres already destroyed, vineyard workers are breathing particulate-filled air as they bring in the grape crop. Many of the workers are undocumented and can’t afford to lose a paycheck even if their homes were destroyed in the fires that have consumed the region. Managers at the… » Read More

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