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MARIA ECHAVESTE

Administrator Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor which covers programs related to minimum wage, child labor and migrant agricultural workers. Echaveste grew up in California where she and her six sibling joined her farm worker parents working in the fields.

StoryDec 17, 1996

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