Keynotes Podcast: The Invisible Essential Workforce Part 1

Click below to listen to our podcast episode posted on November 9th, 2021.

The economic and health devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are widespread, but we’ve disproportionately heaped the burden of holding up the economy and preserving our way of life on certain groups of people—many of which we never see. In this first episode in a two-part series, we highlight the essential contributions of farm labor particularly those laborers who are foreign born. In the era of COVID-19, this workforce keeps our economy afloat but there still needs to be an effort to secure workplace safety, sustainable productivity, and human rights.

Stay tuned for Part 2 on this series. Click here to listen to other episodes of our podcast.