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Bacon, David – Nation, 1997
Although NAFTA has proven profitable for U.S. growers who have relocated agricultural production to Mexico, it has helped create an economic crisis that has forced thousands of Mexican children to leave school in order to work and supplement their parents' shrinking income. In Mexicali Valley (Baja California), approximately a fourth of the…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Child Advocacy, Child Labor
