“Right now, our community is getting prepared for Milton,” Yesica Ramírez, general coordinator for the Farmworker Association of Florida, said through a translator.
Farmworkers, among the nation’s most poorly paid workers, look for the cheapest and most affordable housing option they can — usually mobile homes, she said. Farmworkers earn about 40 percent less in hourly pay as nonagricultural workers in comparable jobs, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.