Oct
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Employment & Labor, Law
Farm Workforce Modernization Act 2025 – Proposed U.S. Law on Agricultural Labor and Immigration
In 2025, the U.S. Congress reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA), a comprehensive proposal to address the twin challenges of labor shortages in agriculture and the long-standing uncertainty faced by immigrant farmworkers. Agriculture in the U.S. relies heavily on foreign-born labor, estimates from the Department of Agriculture suggest that between 45% and 50% of […]