Idaho
USDA host roundtable to discuss affordable housing for farmworkers
NAMPA, Idaho — There are roughly 2.5 million farmworkers in america, and in 2019, in Idaho, the common month-to-month agricultural employee a month was about 52,000. Farmworkers are vital to the U.S. financial system. However regardless of being one of the important jobs for meals safety. They’re among the many lowest-paid staff, which results in many farmworkers struggling to seek out reasonably priced housing.
“How can we home are farm staff? How can we safely and reasonably priced home farm staff? That is a vital subject, ” mentioned Joaquin Altro, USDA Rural Housing Service Administrator.
On Monday afternoon, the Division of Agriculture Rural Housing service held a roundtable to interact native stakeholders and Washington representatives on housing for native farm staff.
“And we’re notably fascinated about options right here in Idaho as a result of we all know that Idaho is rising so shortly now we have such a necessity for reasonably priced housing, housing options, and workforce housing,” mentioned Margaret Salazar, HUD Regional Administrator within the Northwest.
Regardless of farmworkers’ lengthy days and hours, 1 out of three farm working households earn earnings under the federal poverty line. A mean particular person farmworker earns beneath $20,000 a 12 months.
With the price of dwelling in Idaho going up, farmworkers, like many Idahoans, are then compelled to put aside most of their paycheck for housing.
To assist – the USDA addressed the assets they’ll present to Idaho and are engaged on a partnership to serve native farmworkers higher.
“Its the primary time in a few years that now we have been in a position to obligate all of our greenbacks, so we’re right here now to talk to our companions and say now we have applications which are aggressively priced which are right here to assist construct farmworkers’ housing in Idaho,” mentioned Joaquin Altro.
Throughout the spherical desk, the USDA additionally introduced $1 million in grants to the neighborhood council of Idaho for his or her Rigby Neighborhood Clinic, which helps serve the rising migrant and seasonal agricultural staff within the area.
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It was a rainy week with intense showers passing through the Treasure Valley. Sunday is expected to be clear but cooler weather and more precipitation is on the way.
I got to capture a phenomenal rainbow coming into the station today after some of the rain we saw on Saturday clear out.
The start of this wee will see some more rain on the way for Boise. Twin Fall will see their precipitation arrive between Monday and Tuesday with chances of rain snow/ mixes and possible accumulation.
A cold front will move in this week dropping temperatures. 40’s will turn into 30’s for the Magic and Treasure Valley’s. Mountains will expect a cool down as well. Thanksgiving is looking like a clear day though for most parts of Idaho.
Colder is coming this week, make sure to bundle up!
An Idaho teen is behind bars after a dead baby was found in a hospital drop-off box meant for the anonymous surrender of newborns.
Angel Newberry, 18, was arrested in Twin Falls more than a month after medical officials found the dead baby girl wrapped in a blanket with her placenta still attached in the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center in Blackfoot, authorities announced Friday.
“The Safe Haven Baby Box is intended to safely and anonymously allow custodial parents to surrender a newborn under 30 days old without legal repercussions, provided the child is unharmed,” the Blackfoot Police Department said in a social media post.
“Unfortunately, the placement of a harmed or deceased infant is not protected under the system of Idaho law.”
Hospital staff immediately responded to an alarm on Oct. 13 indicating a baby had been placed in the box — making the disturbing discovery that the newborn had been dead long before she was abandoned, according to Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
Idaho law only allows for the surrender of an infant who is unharmed.
“We are heartbroken,” Safe Haven Baby Box founder Monica Kelsey said last month.
“Let this be clear: this is an illegal, deadly abandonment.”
The accused teen was charged with failing to report a death to law enforcement officials and the coroner, police said.
Additional charges could be filed as the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the baby’s death is ongoing.
She is being held at Bingham County Jail.
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