The government’s H-2A program for contracting with agricultural workers from abroad continues to expand in the first two quarters of fiscal year 2022, reports Rural Migration News from the University of California at Davis.
The Department of Labor certified 193,200 jobs to be filled with H-2A workers in those quarters, up 16 percent from 166,000 jobs certified in the first two quarters of FY21.The Labor Department could certify over 350,000 jobs in FY22, up from 317,600 in FY21.
