Hacker News
- Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230217-1 181 comments
- More than 100 Children Illegally Employed in Hazardous Jobs, Federal Investigation Finds; Food Sanitation Contractor Pays $1.5m in Penalties https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230217-1 54 comments politics
Linking pages
- Opinion | The Dangerous Race to Put More Children to Work - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/editorials/arkansas-child-labor.html?smid=em-share 278 comments
- Opinion: Why relaxing child labor laws worsens prospects for kids' futures - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-27/child-labor-laws-worker-shortage 274 comments
- Why Republicans are pushing to weaken child labor laws - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/5/3/23702464/child-labor-laws-youth-migrants-work-shortage 269 comments
- Red States Are Now Weakening Child Labor Laws While Defunding Public Schools - Progressive.org https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/red-states-are-now-weakening-child-labor-laws-Daigon-20230519/ 209 comments
- Labor Department fines food sanitation contractor $1.5M for child labor violations - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor-department-fines-food-sanitation-contractor-15m-child/story?id=97295033 189 comments
- GOP’s Idea of Youth: Little League? Proms? Try Working in a Slaughterhouse and Marrying at 10. | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/171308/gop-child-labor-laws-slaughterhouse 142 comments
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders Thinks Child Labor Laws Have Been Working a Little Too Well | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders-child-labor-laws 73 comments
- ‘They were little’: photos show children illegally working in US slaughterhouse | Nebraska | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/nebraska-slaughterhouse-children-working-photos-labor-department 62 comments
- Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to get hurt than older employees https://theconversation.com/workers-in-their-teens-and-early-20s-are-more-likely-to-get-hurt-than-older-employees-213535 54 comments
- Company fined $650K for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/06/company-fined-650k-children-clean-slaughterhouses/73593416007/ 26 comments
- Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services announce new efforts to combat exploitative child labor | U.S. Department of Labor https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20230227 17 comments
- Republicans Took Their Shots at Biden’s Labor Nominee. They Missed Every Single One. | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/172091/julie-su-labor-senate-hearing-republicans-took-shots-missed 16 comments
- Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/dark-money-fga-ashcroft-invs/index.html 16 comments
- Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues https://www.yahoo.com/news/emails-show-wing-group-steers-055529621.html 14 comments
- June 14, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-14-2023?isFreemail=true&post_id=128457741&publication_id=20533 5 comments
- Child labor in meatpacking plants leads to fine for Packers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/20/meat-packing-plant-child-labor-fines/11304311002/ 0 comments