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A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Farm workers wearing hats break up earth
Human rights
Farmworkers who face extreme heat fear retaliation or deportation if they complain, says nurse
Farmworkers wearing hats gather spinach from a field.
Human rights
As temperatures heat up, farmworkers across the US push for more rights
A man holds up a box of berries in a field, waiting in a queue to load them onto a truck.
Justice
The people who pick your berries in Washington will now be represented by a union
A worker pick grapes at a vineyard at a Napa Valley winery.
Justice
Farmworkers push back against machismo and abuse in California’s wine country
Jose and Oscar
Education
Their parents work the farms as migrant labor. What are their kids’ lives like?
Vegetables at a Whole Foods Market in La Jolla, California. Much of its produce comes from the state’s Central Valley, where it's picked by migrant farmworkers.
Business
How the produce aisle looks to a migrant farmworker
Former farmworker and current Delano Mayor, Grace Vallejo, stands in front of photos of her fellow city council members. The city council is made up of all Hispanic members. "That's a huge change from back in the 1960s. We've come a long way." she says. V
Conflict & Justice
In the town where Chavez began his labor movement, immigrants are now leaders