Migratory Patterns
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Statistical Facts:
• Each year over 1.3 million migrant farm workers and their families labor in America 's fields and orchards, 900,000 of which are the actual workers.
• Of these 900,000, one third choose to follow the harvest (mostly single men) while the remaining two-thirds set up homebase and work for a single employer in one place.
• Farm workers earn an average of $7,500 per year, for undesirable and often unsafe jobs.
• Over two-thirds of migrant households and eighty percent of migrant children live below the poverty level.
• Today, 2 out of 10 migrant farm workers were born in the United States. The remaining eighty percent was comprised of immigrants, ninety percent of which come from Mexico.
• The three states with the largest number of migrant farm workers are California, Florida, and Texas (38).