A last-ditch effort to pass a farm labor reform bill in the U.S. Senate has fallen short. On Thursday, Senators approved a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that does not include the Affordable and Secure Food Act, which Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, had attempted to attach as an amendment. The bipartisan bill would have put limits on H-2A wage increases, offered a path to permanent legal status for existing workers and opened H-2A jobs to year-round employment, among other changes. It was similar to a labor reform measure twice passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that never […]