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 ...

In October 2025, the US Department of Labor made three major changes to H-2A regulations to reduce the cost of H-2A workers. DOL: changed the database used to set hourly Adverse Effect Wage Rates ...

Industry observers expect 10 percent of the 6,000 California wineries to close in 2025 after up to 30 percent of the wine grapes grown in 2024 and 2025 were not harvested. Over 35 percent of the wine ...

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 ...

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 ...

There have been many efforts to uncover the secrets to rapid economic growth. Most explanations for persisting poverty center on three factors: Geography stresses that most poor countries are in the ...