Have you noticed higher-than-normal produce prices at the grocery store lately? Inflation is to blame, but so is a shortage of farm labor, says a national coalition of farm worker advocates, farmers and consumers.
The organization, Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus, contends immigration reform could help bring those produce prices down.
“The labor shortage that I’m talking about in the agriculture sector is creating drops in productivity and spiking food prices,” said Daniel Garza, president of the LIBRE Initiative, a nonprofit that supports Latinos and an Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus member.
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