In the first 100 days of his second administration, Trump took more than 100 executive actions on immigration, aiming to block the arrival of asylum seekers at the border, end temporary protected ...

The 27-member EU reached a framework agreement on trade with the US in July 2025 that will see the US impose 15 percent tariffs on most EU imports, including cars and wine, while maintaining zero ...

During the 1930s, some 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and southwest migrated to California, which had a population of 5.7 million in 1930s. The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for ...

US agriculture is a 50/50 industry, meaning that half of farm sales are from crops and half are the sale of animal products. California agriculture is a 70/30 state, meaning that 70 percent of farm ...

Economic development often decreases the supply of seasonal farm workers faster than the demand for such workers, leading to complaints of farm labor shortages. Most countries richer than their ...

The H-2A program allows US employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal farm workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm jobs for up to 10 months. DOL ...

The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than Germany (16 million), Saudi Arabia (13 million), and Russia (12 million). The US admits over ...

GAO . The GAO released a report (25-106389) in November 2024 that called for more oversight of the H-2A program and enforcement of H-2A regulations. The number of H-2A jobs quadrupled between FY13 and ...

Farm labor contractors (FLCs) are labor market intermediaries who recruit, supervise, and pay farm workers. DOL’s Wage and Hour Division defines a FLC as “a person or business who recruits, solicits, ...

The UN in July 2024 projected that the world’s population of 8.2 billion would peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and decline to 10.2 billion by 2100. When the world’s population peaks in 60 years, the UN ...

Census of Agriculture data released in February 2024 found that US farm sales were $543 billion in 2022, including $280 billion or 52 percent from the sale of crops and $260 billion from the sale of ...

The H-2A and H-2B programs admit foreign guest workers to fill seasonal farm and nonfarm jobs, respectively. The H-2 program was created in 1952 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (Public Law ...