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Sharecropping of Hispanic Farmers

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on a type of sharecropping that targets Hispanic farmers in California. The farmers sign contracts with vegetable brokers, who lend them money to go into business and then claim a large share of the crops as payment. The farmers tend to be former migrant workers, who are not fluent in English.

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