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Migrant Workers Face Hurdles Getting Hurricane Aid

NPR | By Ari Shapiro
Published December 21, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST
Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.
Ari Shapiro, NPR
Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.

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