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  • April 1st 2008 Issue
  • In the box

    Utilize American Labor

    Dear Good Fruit Grower: Growers need temporary workers, but they do not need to find those workers in foreign countries—they are already here. That requires thinking outside the traditional box, but it is so. To understand, you must first know what is not being clearly presented in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s monthly Employment Situation Report. The face of that report shows unemployment at 4.9 percent, or roughly seven million people in January. That is only a part of the picture, though, one intended as a measure of economic activity month to month. Another portion of that report tells a […]

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