Drought Survey: Jobs Drying Up for Indigenous Farmworkers

Hurricane Patricia today barreled toward Mexico, and all that rain may soon cause floods in Texas. But it'll do nothing to help California's punishing drought, now in its fourth year. The lack of rain here means fewer hands are needed for the harvest in Central Valley farm country, where growers are leaving some fields fallow, or planting crops like almonds, that require less labor. A new survey underscores how indigenous farmworkers from Mexico are paying an especially high price for the drought.