Many of the storytellers have spent years in Vermont, but they are living apart from their families because they want to help them, sending money back home that will allow parents to buy a house or otherwise improve their lot.
More than 2,000 migrant farmworkers and those adjacent to them have been vaccinated statewide over the past six months.
‘It’s low-cost for the state, but a moral imperative,’ said Vermont Law School professor Erin Jacobsen. The House Committee on Health Care will vote on a bill on Friday.
The state’s nine clinics for uninsured and underinsured patients may see an influx of patients.
It is political hypocrisy to bemoan the presence of this class of second-class citizens, while allowing businesses, including farms, to take advantage of them.
The Open Door Clinic, with offices in Middlebury and Vergennes, is one of the only such centers in Vermont that has developed a program dedicated to serving a group that is often overlooked.
