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| Photo: Alan Pogue |
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Nearly half of Texas farmworkers live below the poverty level. |
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Source: 1996 State Low Income Housing Plan and Annual Report, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, p. 3-19. |
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(left) Farmworker family in front of their home in West Texas. |
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500,138 seasonal farmworkers live in 149 counties across Texas.
Source: 1996 State Low Income Housing Plan and Annual Report, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, p. 3-19. |
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| Photo: Alan Pogue |
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(right) Children of farmworkers sleep on the floor of their one bedroom house in West Texas. |
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An average migrant farmworker family consists of four to five people, with an annual income of $5,472. |
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Source: 1996 State Low Income Housing Plan and Annual Report, Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs, p. 3-19. |
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| Photo: Lillian Salcido |
A farmworker family in front of their small trailer home in a South Texas colonia. |
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