Agricultural workers are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Consequently, migrant farmworkers are largely unprotected by the U.S. legal system today, and 500,000 of these workers are under the age of 18.

The Youth and Young Adult Network of the National Farm Worker Ministry!YAYA is a national network of young people actively working to change the oppressive social, political and economic conditions faced by farm workers in the United States.