This ZIP code had the highest poverty rate in Miami-Dade County. Then came COVID-19

Andrea, a 45-year-old single mother from Mexico, lives with her three children in Homestead. An undocumented farm worker with no formal ties to the small-scale vegetable and fruit farm where she’s been employed for the past few years, Andrea used her relatively steady work hours picking passion fruit and vegetables to pay rent and put food on the table.

Andrea, a 45-year-old single mother from Mexico, lives with her three children in Homestead. An undocumented farm worker with no formal ties to the small-scale vegetable and fruit farm where she’s been employed for the past few years, Andrea used her relatively steady work hours picking passion fruit and vegetables to pay rent and put food on the table.