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Central Valley Farmworkers Struggle to Recover After Floods

Por: The New York Times Nation March 07, 2023

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ImageFabi Cervantes standing in the doorway of a bedroom in her mother’s home in Planada, which was heavily damaged by flooding.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York TimesPLANADA — In 1910, the Los Angeles real estate developer J. Harvey McCarthy decided that this small agricultural town in the Central Valley would be his “city beautiful,” a model community and an automobile stop along the road to Yosemite.An infusion of money brought Planada... + full article



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