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Angie Craig: It is a speech not unlike the one we gave before we recessed for the break before the election, when it was becoming…

On the recordDecember 7, 2006
It is a speech not unlike the one we gave before we recessed for the break before the election, when it was becoming increasingly obvious that America was finding itself in a major labor shortage, primarily in agriculture and some of the service industries. In fact, while I was home during this recess period of time, the shortage of orange juice in the U.S. market made national news as the price went up substantially. A shortage of orange juice today in the American market is because nearly a million cases of oranges rotted on the trees of Florida this fall, late summer, because there were not hands to pick them, put them in the crates, and move them to the processing sheds.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing labor shortages in agriculture and its impact on the orange juice market.

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