Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810090141

The United States Public Health Service has found that migratory workers and their families suffer from disabling illnesses at a far higher rate than the rest of the population. Is it any wonder? And yet we need these men and women to harvest the crops. The amendment we are discussing affects the lives of these migrant workers. The amendment transfers migratory labor camps from the Department of Agriculture to the Public Housing Administration for use as lowrent housing projects for the migratory farm workers who make up a part of the rural nonfarm population. The amendment if enacted into law will repeal Public Law 298 and provisions of the Farmers Home Administration Act which require the Department of Agriculture to liquidate the Federal Governments migratory labor camp program.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HELEN DOUGLAS
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
F
Date
—
Speech ID
810090141
Paragraph
#1
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