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 ...

The blunt truth of the matter is that child labor pays and is fast becoming remarkably ubiquitous. It’s an open secret that fast-food chains have employed underage kids for years and simply ...

can we really express surprise when we learn of 12-year-old factory workers? It’s the logical result of the freest of markets, as our predecessors learned early in the last century. 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 ...

While the term “child labor” may conjure up sepia-toned images of factory urchins from the Industrial ... the specter of sweatshops and factories staffed by kids isn’t just a troubling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...