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Central Coast advocates are pushing a plan to raise the minimum wage for farm workers in Santa Barbara County by $10 dollars an hour.

The new report by CAUSE and MICOP suggests farmworker income often falls below the living wage in Santa Barbara County.

KCBX’s Amanda Wernik spoke with Senior Policy Advocate, Andrea Echeverri with the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, or CAUSE, about the unsafe working conditions that farmworkers face and what our region can do to protect them.

Scientists around the world agree that pollution, habitat destruction, and over-exploitation of natural resources have created a climate emergency that…

Over one hundred thousand people are now evacuated from the Thomas Fire, burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. But workers in the area’s…