More than a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts are grown in California.

Stay-at-home orders in California exempt farmworkers as essential employees.

But many are undocumented, lack health insurance and don’t qualify for unemployment insurance or federal COVID-19 relief, placing the state’s estimated workforce of 420,000 in a vulnerable position.

LA Times staff writer Andrea Castillo talked with LA Times Today about the latest. 

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