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- Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire kids for labor shortage https://www.businessinsider.com/fair-labor-standards-act-hiring-child-laws-worker-shortage-iowa-minnesota-2023-2 275 comments
- Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits: Kids, farmers, fishermen, cities, and states are suing the fossil fuel industry and governments. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/22/17140166/climate-change-lawsuit-exxon-juliana-liability-kids 4 comments politics
- Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits: Kids, farmers, fishermen, cities, and states are suing the fossil fuel industry and governments. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/22/17140166/climate-change-lawsuit-exxon-juliana-liability-kids 1417 comments worldnews
- Man with 30 kids wants state help to pay his child support http://now.msn.com/money/0518-man-30-kids-child-support.aspx?fb_ref=scptmf&fb_source=home_multiline 4 comments politics
- Roger Stone Quit Paying His Taxes Because Deep State — Don't try this one at home, kids. https://abovethelaw.com/2021/04/roger-stone-quit-paying-his-taxes-because-deep-state/ 52 comments politics
- Travel guru Rick Steves: "I'm a hardworking, tax-paying, kid-raising, church-going citizen of the United States. And if I work hard all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint, and just stare at the fireplace for three hours — that is my civil liberty." http://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/your-responses-to-my-thoughts-on-drug-policy-reform/ 36 comments politics
- Instead of paying adults more, some states might let companies hire kids as young as 14 to fill the labor shortage https://www.businessinsider.com/fair-labor-standards-act-hiring-child-laws-worker-shortage-iowa-minnesota-2023-2 336 comments economy
- Instead of paying adults more, some states might let companies hire kids as young as 14 to fill the labor shortage https://www.businessinsider.com/fair-labor-standards-act-hiring-child-laws-worker-shortage-iowa-minnesota-2023-2 365 comments politics
- States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay https://www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1049811327/states-send-kids-to-foster-care-and-their-parents-the-bill-often-one-too-big-to- 21 comments politics
- Kid tries to pay ticket with 137 $1 bills, each folded into an origami pig. Should the state have been compelled to accept the payment as-is since it's legal tender? http://www.youtu.be/4yTBHCNHaQo 79 comments law
- We Shouldn’t Need GoFundMe to Respond to Catastrophes. We Need a Strong Welfare State—A telltale sign of a broken society is when medical workers are forced to beg for supplies on GoFundMe and parents have to write compelling stories to convince random people to pay for their kid’s cancer treatment https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/gofundme-crowdfunding-coronavirus-covid-cancer-treatment 36 comments politics