Session #91 · 1969–71

Speech #910259014

I want to indicate that I will support the Senator from Minnesota in hoping that the conference report will be rejected. I should like to review very briefly with the Senator from Minnesota some of the rough statistics. which are only statistics and do not tell the real human dimension of the farm migrant worker problem we have in this Nation. As I understand. there are approximately 1 million migrant workers in the United States at the present time. and this provision to cover migrant workers in unemployment compensation. which was put in by a rollcall vote in the Senate. would include by rough estimate only about 20 percent of the migrant workers and only about 2 percent of the employers. So it is my understanding that the provision which was adopted by the Senate was really a very modest beginning on what already has manifested itself as being an extraordinarily serious problem in this country.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
910259014
Paragraph
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