For growers who find the H-2A foreign guest-worker program too daunting, hiring refugees might be a way to ease labor shortages. World Relief is one of ten organization that contract with the U.S. Department of Labor to help refugees who come to the United States get settled and find jobs. Mark Kadel, director of World Relief’s office in Spokane, Washington, said his organization works with growers to supply them with qualified and legal workers. “They are here, and they are legal from the moment they step off the airplane, because they’ve been invited by our state department to become our […]