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" Ratio of farmworkers to farm jobs in California increased to 2.3 in 2016 "
Martin, Philip L; Hooker, Brandon; Stockton, Marc
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AL
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945112
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LA2gv8f8q4
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English
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Martin, Philip L; Hooker, Brandon; Stockton, Marc
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Ratio of farmworkers to farm jobs in California increased to 2.3 in 2016 [Article]\ Martin, Philip L; Hooker, Brandon; Stockton, Marc
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California Agriculture
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73/2
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2019
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California Employment Development Department data suggest that almost 5% of California's workers were employed in agriculture, in 2016. In that year, monthly average employment in agriculture was 425,400, but the number of workers with at least one job in agriculture was 2.3 times that figure, 989,500. The number of hired farmworkers, including supervisors and office personnel, rose almost 20% between 2015 and 2016. Most workers employed in agriculture do not work year-round, so there is a gap between the average earnings of a full-time equivalent job in agriculture (
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