Wealth and International Trade



Wealth and International Trade

Task 1

The purpose of the AEWR is to overcome and prevent depression in prevailing wage rates. In 2009, the Bush Administration changed the regulations governing the H-2A program, including the methodology for determining the AEWR, which resulting in an average of $1 to $2 decrease in hourly wages for H-2A workers. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis reinstated the previous methodology for H-2A applications filed after March 2010. Farmworker Justice supports the reinstatement, but believes that rates under the program are still too low.

The Bush Administration changed the forumula for calculating this wage rate resulting ...