One part of America’s War on Poverty was the country’s first sustained effort to improve the economic and social status of migrant farm workers. National and state legislative efforts produced new minimum wage protection, workmen’s compensation, and unemployment insurance for agricultural workers in the Yakima Valley, Washington. State and county officials revised the housing code so that fruit and vegetable pickers could enjoy more sanitary and comfortable dwellings. A new federally funded health clinic offered decent healthcare. School administrators devised various programs to keep migrant kids in classrooms or to forward their records when the children moved. There was a pronounced effort to unionize farm workers. From 1965 to 1975, then, much had been done to improve the migrants’ lives. However, the migrants’ relative position in society had only marginally improved. The farm workers’ mobility ultimately limited them to the lowest rungs of the social and economic ladders. [For more information, contact the presenter at jon.middaugh@us.army.mil.]