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Lindsay Lowell By Type: ReportTestimonyBlogFact Sheet Statement for the record for U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Immigrant Farmworkers are Essential to Feeding America” July 21, 2021 By Daniel Costa Testimony The farmworker wage gap continued in 2020: Farmworkers and H-2A workers earned very low wages during the pandemic, even compared with other low-wage workers July 20, 2021 By Daniel Costa Blog Disappointing Supreme Court decision makes it harder for farmworkers to unionize June 23, 2021 By Daniel Costa Blog The H-1B visa program remains the “outsourcing visa”: More than half of the top 30 H-1B employers were outsourcing firms March 31, 2021 By Ron Hira and Daniel Costa Blog Agricultural employers are asking the Supreme Court to make it harder for farmworkers suffering from poor pay and working conditions to unionize March 23, 2021 By Daniel Costa Blog Wages are still too low in H-2B occupations: Updated wage rules could ensure labor standards are protected and migrants are paid fairly March 18, 2021 By Daniel Costa Blog Claims of labor shortages in H-2B industries don’t hold up to scrutiny: President Biden should not expand a flawed temporary work visa program March 9, 2021 By Daniel Costa Blog Temporary work visa programs and the need for reform: A briefing on program frameworks, policy issues and fixes, and the impact of COVID-19 February 3, 2021 By Daniel Costa Report Federal labor standards enforcement in agriculture: Data reveal the biggest violators and raise new questions about how to improve and target efforts to protect farmworkers December 15, 2020 By Daniel Costa, Philip Martin, and Zachariah Rutledge Report H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels: A majority of H-1B employers—including major U.S. tech firms—use the program to pay migrant workers well below market wages May 4, 2020 By Daniel Costa and Ron Hira Report Trump executive order to suspend immigration would reduce green cards by nearly one-third if extended for a full year April 23, 2020 By Daniel Costa Blog New survey and report reveals mistreatment of H-2A farmworkers is common: The coronavirus puts them further at risk April 15, 2020 By Daniel Costa Blog Trump administration looking to cut the already low wages of H-2A migrant farmworkers while giving their bosses a multibillion-dollar bailout April 14, 2020 By Daniel Costa Blog Coronavirus and farmworkers: Farm employment, safety issues, and the H-2A guestworker program March 24, 2020 By Daniel Costa and Philip Martin Report The Farm Workforce Modernization Act allows employers to hire migrant farmworkers with H-2A temporary visas for year-round jobs: Impacts are unknown and other wage-setting formulas should be considered December 11, 2019 By Daniel Costa Blog House vote imminent on the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act—which would lower wages for migrant farmworkers: Hearings and assessments of impacts still needed December 10, 2019 By Daniel Costa Blog EPI comments on removal of 30-day processing provision for employment authorization for asylum applicants November 8, 2019 By Daniel Costa Public Comments EPI comments on proposed changes to regulations governing the H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers September 24, 2019 By Daniel Costa Public Comments Employers increase their profits and put downward pressure on wages and labor standards by exploiting migrant workers August 27, 2019 By Daniel Costa Report Shining a light on summer work: A first look at the employers using the J-1 Summer Work Travel visa July 30, 2019 By Daniel Costa Report Trump and Kushner’s ‘merit-based’ immigration plan fails to propose the smart reforms needed to modernize and improve U.S. labor migration May 17, 2019 By Daniel Costa Blog Congress and Trump discover bipartisanship on immigration—but only to increase H-2B visas for captive and underpaid migrant workers April 2, 2019 By Daniel Costa Blog Temporary labor migration programs: Governance, migrant worker rights, and recommendations for the U.N. Global Compact for Migration August 1, 2018 By Daniel Costa and Philip Martin Report Congress is trying to use appropriations expand the H-2B temporary worker program—where migrants are exploitable and have few rights—by 73 percent March 19, 2018 By Daniel Costa and Jennifer Rosenbaum Blog Using the H-2A guestworker program for year-round agricultural jobs would lower wages for farmworkers March 19, 2018 By Daniel Costa and Jennifer Rosenbaum Blog Sen. Hatch’s H-1B bill and other guestworker proposals should be kept out of Senate immigration debate February 14, 2018 By Daniel Costa Blog News from EPI › Transparency in work visa programs is needed to protect working people and fight human trafficking January 11, 2018 Press Releases Proposal to change the H-2A program via appropriations would allow agribusiness to fill hundreds of thousands of permanent, year-round jobs with temporary guestworkers October 25, 2017 By Daniel Costa Blog The Legal Workforce and Agricultural Guestworker Acts would push down wages and labor standards for Americans and immigrants alike October 24, 2017 By Daniel Costa Blog Agricultural guestworkers: The challenge of the expanding H-2A program August 1, 2017 By Philip Martin and Daniel Costa Blog Load more...