Josh Harder

The Labor Department believes that workers who do have legal status appear to be leaving farm jobs because of age or opportunities for more stable and higher-paying employment outside of agriculture.

Labor is the life blood of the agriculture industry. Without the ability to find and retain a reliable workforce, our agriculture industry will continue to struggle to meet the market's needs.

But creating a sustained national funding mechanism that companies can tap into while we grow into this idea of taking people from nontraditional sectors, would be significant.

I don't think there were a lot of tech jobs that were really in 1937.

This week, the administration released its proposed budget, and I am here to share what those budget cuts actually mean for the farmers in my home, California's Central Valley. Imagine you are an almond farmer in the Central Valley. Maybe…

the maximum Pell Grant was about 76 percent of the cost of attendance for a 4-year school, about 76 percent in 1980.

So, in other words, in the last 10 years, since I got out of school, the aggregated amount of student debt in this country has tripled in the last 10 years?

we have the cost of education that has been skyrocketing while we have been disinvesting in higher education

I thank Chair Lofgren for her leadership on this issue. Madam Chair, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support my amendment to limit the influence of lobbyists on elected officials. Here is a stat that blows me away. D.C. is home to…

An emergency in an area like the Central Valley, my home, where close to 50 percent of our residents are on Medicaid.

Farmers in my community often feel ignored, and I would love you to see the impacts of what is happening in our district firsthand.

The last time we had a decline of net farm income to this degree was during the Great Depression.

I see that as sort of the opposite of what we actually need to be doing in a time like this.

I strongly encourage USDA do all it can to ensure all these provisions are implemented in an effective and timely matter.

Today, I rise on behalf of the communities affected by the devastating wildfires in northern California. These past few months have been a trying time for our community. Entire towns were destroyed, crops were burned, and thousands of…