A new bill aims for legal status for farm workers, helping to stabilize U.S. agriculture.
In a step toward addressing the labor shortage plaguing America's agricultural sector, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the Affordable and Secure Food Act, seeking to overhaul the nation's temporary agricultural worker program.The legislation promises a 10-year path to legal status for farm workers and aims to stabilize the workforce essential to the country's food supply.
For people who gain a new legal status under the act, the bill provides the opportunity to make corrections to their Social Security records, which can be important for their future employment and benefits.According to Gillibrand, the broader goal of the bill is to address the recent decline in the farming industry—a sector that has lost more than 141,000 farms in just five years, according to the USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture.
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