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Migrant Workers Face Hurdles Getting Hurricane Aid

NPR | By Ari Shapiro
Published December 21, 2004 at 11:00 PM CST
Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.
Ari Shapiro, NPR
Preschool children in a migrant Headstart classroom in Dundee, Fla. Most of these children's parents work as orange pickers or tomato pickers at nearby farms, but jobs have become scarce since the hurricanes damaged much of the crop.

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Ari Shapiro
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.
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