Students at Floyd Middle School will use a recently-built organic garden to study science and biolgy this year. Volunteers from Pace Cetters, an Atlanta-area professional women's organization which helps tie businesses with communities, helped build the garden this summer using a "Goldman Sachs Gives" grant.

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A migrant farmworker harvests Vidalia onions at a farm in Collins, in 2011. A coalition of farmworkers, including one based in Georgia, filed suit last month in federal court arguing that cuts to H-2A wages will trigger a cut in the pay and standard of living of U.S. agricultural workers. (Bita Honarvar/AJC)

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