Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire ...

A GOP-led bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week would allow teenagers to work longer and later hours if signed into law by President Donald Trump. Newsweek has contacted ...

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is the latest lawmaker looking to update the nation's antiquated child labor laws after a steep increase in violations over the last several years. Casey, who chairs the ...

"America has long fought to end child and adult forced labor, yet the cobalt vital to ... share of trucks to be zero-emissions in that same timeline. "Three years ago, I set an ambitious target ...

“This is our reality check. We have a global commitment to end child labour by 2025. If we do not act now on an unprecedented scale, the timeline for ending child labour will stretch years ...

Children were viewed as an inexpensive source of labor. In this bell ringer, students will learn how child labor impacted businesses and families.

Check out our guidelines and submission details here. Over 100 years ago, the National Child Labor Committee used photos of children doing industrial work to demand change in America. Several states ...

The timeline shows the challenges of quickly ... PSSI at "numerous plants," including any location where alleged child-labor violations occurred, and is bringing sanitation work in-house at ...

Summary: In the Child Tax Labor Case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a purported “tax” was really a “penalty” and therefore an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s power to tax.

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 ...

Credit - Bettmann Archive Such state-level rollbacks threaten to undermine the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the basis of federal child labor protections. In response, many are now calling for ...