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

A farmworker family in front of their small trailer home in a South Texas colonia.