As Indiana’s part-time legislature returned to the Statehouse in January, a new law allowed another group of Hoosiers to spend more time in the workforce. Those workers are teens, some as young as 14, ...

There are now 138 million child laborers, down from an estimated 160 million in 2020, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a joint report ...

Ever since federal penalties totaling $1.5 million were imposed late last year on 13 meat plants contracting in eight states with Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing children in critical ...

Under the bill, all restrictions on the times of day and the number of hours 16 and 17-year-olds can work are repealed. Previously, 16 and 17-year-olds were only allowed to work up to 8 hours a day ...

New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down on companies using child labor laws or violating already-existing laws, while one state loosened its child labor laws. Several ...

Florida Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, says his bill is simply “lining Florida up with federal law” on child labor. The federal law he’s referring to was passed in 1938. Credit: Photo via Jay ...

YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...

Child labor sounds as if it belongs to a long-ago era, but for 138 million children it is a daily routine. "These are children who work under the hot sun in farms, tending crops when they should be in ...

Emily Dobson, Piper Rockelle and Claire Rock Smith pose at the 2nd Annual Toys For Tots Toy Drive on November 21, 2020 in Hollywood, California. Rockelle's rise to YouTube fame and the troubling ...

There are only two types of investors: those who have unlawful child labor in their portfolios, and those who do not yet know that they have unlawful child labor in their portfolios. So we present ...

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