migrant farmworkers COVID-19 Risk & Unemployment Rates Lower Number Of Migrant Workers By Seth Bodine • Jan 13, 2021 ESTHER HONIG / HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA FILE PHOTO The number of migrant farmworkers in the U.S. dropped 42% in 2020, likely because of the risk of COVID-19 coupled with high unemployment rates. ‘Either I Risk It All Or Nothing At All’: Migrant Workers’ Need To Work Outweighs COVID-19 Con By Dana Cronin & Christine Herman • Oct 15, 2020 On the outskirts of Rantoul, in east-central Illinois, about 100 migrant farmworkers are living at an old hotel in a sleepy part of town. Amid COVID-19 Concerns, Clinics Step Up Testing For Migrant Farmworkers By Christine Herman • Jul 24, 2020 COURTESY OF JAMES UNZICKER, CHP OF IL Maricel Mendoza is familiar with the work migrant and seasonal farmworkers do. Growing up, her family traveled from Texas to central Illinois every year for her parents' jobs as contractors with a large seed company.
