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Excerpt from Quote Magazine

June 3, 1964

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Of some 400,000 domestic migratory workers, 92,000 could find work for less than 25 days in 1960. The remainder, who’d worked more than 25 days, earned an average of $1,000 for the year. Those who worked less than 25 days received only $388. Because of their constant movement from place to place following the harvest, migratory children fall years behind in education.