Working on a farm can be dangerous. The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration estimates that every day, more than 240
agricultural workers suffer an injury that results in lost work time.
Advocates
for disabled Vermonters are decrying what they say are problems with a newly
instituted system of electronic payments for Social Security beneficiaries. They’ve been alerted this
week to a spate of problems with people being switched to debit card payments
without adequate notification.