From Daily Kos
Dairy industry warns of shortages and rising prices if it doesn't get cheap guest workers
from Daily Kos by rss@dailykos.com (Laura Clawson)
The current H-2A agricultural guest worker program just doesn't work for dairy farmers-and they're hoping immigration reform will change that. If it doesn't, they warn, we could see dairy shortages and rising prices. There is this one flaw in the argument, though:
"They can never adequately explain why they can't raise wages," said Eric Ruark, research director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington. "If there's a labor shortage, you raise wages. That's classic supply-and- demand. Maximizing profits for the producer should not be the main goal of our food system."
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