"Uprooted Innocence" featured on "The State of Things"

Monday, April 16, 2012 at 7:05AM
Chris Liu-Beers in Farmworkers in the News, child labor, children in the fields, nc dept of labor

Photo by Joe Wolf

Did you know that almost half a million children work in agriculture in the U.S.?

Emily Drakage with the Children in the Fields campaign and Catherine Bittar, a Duke University student who helped produce the short documentary "Uprooted Innocence" talk about the reality of child labor with WUNC's "The State of Things."

• Listen to "The State of Things"
• Watch "Uprooted Innocence"
• Take action with the Harvest of Dignity Campaign

Article originally appeared on Farmworker Advocacy Network (http://ncfan.org/).