The deductions frustrated him. “You earn money faster” in the U.S. than in Mexico, the man said in Spanish. But the deductions in every paycheck slowed his earnings, and he and his family needed every ...
Early on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate, about a thousand sheep round the corner and bound ...
This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer, a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. The Lower ...