Jessica Ramos: “My freshman year I had passed the Farm Worker Fair Labor…”

“And so there was an issue with access to food because when the shutdown took place, restaurants started closing down and a lot of these immigrants were not able to access any sort of safety net. So you might remember that My freshman year I had passed the Farm Worker Fair Labor Practices Act. So at the height of the pandemic, when we start to notice that so many of our neighbors were hungry, my team and I called every single farmer that testified …” (11:05–11:11)

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