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California's Laborers Hit by Crop Freeze

By Tamara Keith

Published January 18, 2007 at 10:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

The freeze that numbed California over the weekend and earlier this week appears to be easing, but the damage is done. Citrus farmers are cataloging their losses, many workers have already been laid off, and social service agencies are bracing for a rush of unemployed farm workers.

Tamara Keith reports from KQED in San Francisco.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic, breaking news about global vaccine sharing and plans for distribution of vaccines to children under 12.