Category: History & Economics

  • This article, USDA wants to end Farm Labor Survey, published by DTN Progressive Farmer, discusses potential changes to how wages are set for temporary, migrant labor with H2A (temporary worker) visas. And, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Labor Survey (FLS) which is critical to the determination of H2A visa holder wages may be discontinued.…

  • About 3.5% of Mexico’s GDP is from remittances which is money sent back to Mexico from Mexican workers in foreign countries. 90% of Mexican workers who work outside of Mexico and send money back to Mexico are living and working in the U.S. . In 2024, remittances to Mexico were about $65 Billion. This article…

  • This Fortune article (August 28, 2025) predicts that the combination of tariffs and deporation of key labor sectors will increase food prices in the U.S. this winter.

  • This article describes a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census which shows that between January and July, 2025, 1.2 million foreign born workers (authorized and unauthorized) left the labor force.  This was the result of detentions, deportations, and “work “no shows” due to fear of detention/deportation and no new incoming labor.  Unauthorized…

  • A new Pew Center Research Report (August 2025) describes unauthorized populations and shows that, after a peak of 14 million in 2023, the US has seen a 1.5 million person decrease in the immigration population (both authorized and unauthorized) during the first half of 2025.  This is the result of fewer incoming immigrants and some deportations (forced and self-determined.)…