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In nation's breadbasket, Latinos stuck in poverty : ... brought Melendez to work in California's fields when the girl was 13, hoping farm work would be a spring board to a better life, but Melendez and two of her oldest sons have yet to find a way out of the fields and out of the cycle of poverty in ...

In nation's breadbasket , Latinos stuck in poverty : California's San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest agricultural regions in the world, with Fresno County farmers receiving a record $6.8 billion in revenues last year. But the region also consistently ranks among the nation's most impoverished ... Other geolocations

In nation's breadbasket, Latinos stuck in poverty (AP) -- On a warm spring day, farmworker Cristina Melendez was bedridden and unable to make her way back into the asparagus fields of central California for the kind of backbreaking work she's done since childhood. The 36-year-old mother of seven was ...