Bates Technical College |
| 1101 S Yakima Ave |
| Tacoma, WA 98405 |
| General Phone: 253-680-7000 |
| Financial Aid Phone: 253-680-7020 |
| Sector: Public, 2-year |
| Website: www.bates.ctc.edu/ |
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Hurricane evacuees seek help in poverty-stricken regions - CNN International
In the height of the cotton industry, workers never made much, but they could usually find work. Now, workers like Bates have seen the cotton season dwindle from four months to three weeks. Economic changes and technical advances in the farming industry since the Great Depression of the 1930s destroyed the availability of cotton work, and nothing arrived to replace it.