Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Ever since the large meatpacking plants moved from places like Kansas City and Chicago, rural Midwestern towns have been dealing with a huge influx of immigrants.
In part three of the series "In the Shadows of the Slaughterhouse," from Fronteras and Harvest Public Media, Peggy Lowe and Abbie Fentress Swanson report from on how some of these kids are hoping to achieve the American Dream -- by going to college and finding jobs outside the meat-packing industry.