Modern-Day Slavery: The Real Cost--That Glass of OJ Is Squeezing.... Jane Daugherty and others.
by Daugherty, Jane; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 310Business. Publisher: Palm Beach Post, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Alien labor | Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Emigration and immigration law | Expenditures -- Public | Florida | Illegal aliens | Medical care -- Cost of | Migrant agricultural laborers | Slave laborDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Cheap labor puts fresh-squeezed Florida orange juice on millions of American breakfast tables every morning. Cheap labor picks the giant crimson Plant City strawberries, glossy bell peppers and juicy melons, not to mention the picture-perfect Indian River grapefruit so popular in Japan and Europe. But cheap labor also generates significant hidden costs, costs that one national labor expert says are so staggering that an 8-ounce glass of fresh orange juice that retails for 42 cents from the carton really costs Florida taxpayers a whole lot more." (PALM BEACH POST) This article examines the hidden costs of cheap labor that are borne "by welfare agencies, schools, hospitals, police" and ultimately, the taxpayer.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Modern-Day Slavery: The Real Cost--That Glass of OJ Is Squeezing..., Dec. 9, 2003; pp. 2+.
"Cheap labor puts fresh-squeezed Florida orange juice on millions of American breakfast tables every morning. Cheap labor picks the giant crimson Plant City strawberries, glossy bell peppers and juicy melons, not to mention the picture-perfect Indian River grapefruit so popular in Japan and Europe. But cheap labor also generates significant hidden costs, costs that one national labor expert says are so staggering that an 8-ounce glass of fresh orange juice that retails for 42 cents from the carton really costs Florida taxpayers a whole lot more." (PALM BEACH POST) This article examines the hidden costs of cheap labor that are borne "by welfare agencies, schools, hospitals, police" and ultimately, the taxpayer.
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