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| | Farmworker Justice Fund |
 | | For twenty-four years, the Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. ("FJF") has been helping empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice. |
 | | Adrienne, a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Georgia Law School (with honors), has clerked for a federal court judge, participated as a Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women and Families, and most recently (2002-2005) served as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. |
 | | SPECIAL On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, a majority of the Members of the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act of 2005, known as " AgJOBS." The 53 to 45 vote was not enough to pass it because 60 votes were needed first to overcome a threatened filibuster. |
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