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Migrant Workers Face Hurdles Getting Hurricane Aid

NPR | By Ari Shapiro
Published December 22, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST
Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.
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Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.

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