Clinical- Special Populations- Rural Health - Survey

Unique Survey of Farmworker Living & Working Conditions Suspended- 5/27/2005

In a surprise move, the Department of Labor has suspended the annual National Agricultural Workers Survey due to cost-cutting and a plan to shift any future survey work to either the Education or Homeland Security Departments.  Costing roughly $1 million a year, the survey not only gathers information that had otherwise been impossible to collect through the Census Bureau and other regular means, but it also helps direct millions of other federal dollars toward migrant programs.  It additionally is used to help evaluate new legislative proposals.  The 2002 report is still expected to be issued, but there are currently no plans to continue to collect 2005 data.




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