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Many California farmworkers are reaching retirement age without access to benefits

Thousands of undocumented farmworkers in California are reaching retirement age. But many need to continue working because they don’t have access to retirement benefits such as Social Security.

Farida Jhabvala Romero of KQED has more.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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