The thread about teen employment reminded me of this article that I read yesterday.
I had no idea that this had occurred.
Another fascinating incident in our country’s history.
“The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program.
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...Wirtz's scheme seemed to work at first: About 18,100 teenagers signed up to join the A-TEAM. But only about 3,300 of them ever got to pick crops.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...high-schoolers
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