KAWC: Aging Farmworkers Face Challenges with Retirement
Stephanie Sanchez, 2017 Fellow in The Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, has an article in KAWC on challenges that aging farmworkers are facing around retirement.
While much of the American workforce looks forwards to retiring around 65, many seasonal farmworkers have no choice but to keep working well past that age. Recent studies indicate that older workers are five times more likely than younger workers to be killed on the job.
Amanda Aguirre is president of Regional Center for Border Health, a clinic that treats a large percentage of farmworker families. Aguirre said health issues among farmworkers worsen the longer they stay on the job. "We have to be very blessed that families are still choosing to work. But we got to take better care of them, they deserve that,” Aguirre said.
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