René Merced  🇵🇷Mar 7, 2023

Arkansas bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sanders’ desk

https://www.knoe.com/2023/03/06/arkansas-bill-remove-work-permit-requirement-children-under-16-goes-sanders-desk/
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Arkansas bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sanders’ desk

House Bill 1410 goes to Sanders’ desk less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor announced it had fined Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for violating child labor laws at 13 plants in eight states, including Arkansas.

KNOE
René Merced  🇵🇷Mar 7, 2023

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html
#news #childlabor #migrantchildlabor #migrantlabor #childexploitation #labor #politics #government #capitalism

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

The New York Times
Poetry NewsMar 4, 2023

Migrant children's plight
Endured in faraway lots
Hidden from the light

#migrantchildlabor #childexploitation #hannahdreier #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/insider/searching-for-the-faces-of-child-migrant-labor.html

Searching for the Faces of Migrant Child Labor

To investigate the exploitation of migrant children, who often work long hours at factory jobs, the reporter Hannah Dreier waited out the late shift in parking lots.

The New York Times