We tend to think of child labor under ... into contact with kids under 18 in incredibly hazardous jobs, including operating industrial lathe machines, working in a logging factory without masks ...

lawmakers condemned the ghastly practice of children toiling on factory floors to the past. Yes, politicians from both parties are decrying the growing problem of child migrant labor. But whether ...

A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor has used child labor at a plant that ... doesn’t have jurisdiction to investigate possible labor-law violations at the factory. Instead, the force notified the ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped ...

For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the ... Across the factory, another worker had failed to see Marcos crouched ...

Iowa is facing a labor shortage. So let’s send in the kids. At least that appears to be the impetus behind bills in the Republican-controlled Iowa House and Senate rolling back child labor ...

Today my colleague, Hannah Dreier, on the failures that have led to a crisis in child labor and now that ... These are kids working factory jobs in a lot of cases, factories that supply some ...

Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory ... child labor over the past ...

Now they go to undocumented child migrants." "In Iowa right now, we have this bill advancing that would roll back vast portions of the state's child labor protections ... of the kids I talked ...

The Labor Department has prioritized child labor enforcement since last spring amid a 152% increase in children found to be illegally employed since 2018, according to department figures.

he said he “learned that the state wasn’t really going to be able to take a lead role on enforcing our own child labor laws because our penalties were so low.” “We want our kids to be safe ...

The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses ... but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the past few years. To Debbie Berkowitz ...