State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago. The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment Skip to main content ...

The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor ...

These are not isolated events. A March 2023 report by the Economic Policy Institute identified over 600 active Labor Department investigations into violations of child labor laws — described in ...

July 13, 2023; Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever Child Labor in America Is Back—and It’s As Chilling as Ever It should be a reminder of how deeply retrogressive ...

The moral scourge of child labor was supposedly eradicated in America more than 100 years ago. Red states are bringing it back in the name of parental rights.

Child labor had already been woven into the fabric of American clothing, sheets, curtains, shoes, and furniture cushions since before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and continued as a ...

Interested in writing a letter to the editor or guest column to the Indiana Daily Student? Check out our guidelines and submission details here. Over 100 years ago, the National Child Labor Committee ...

The Child Labor Crisis In America : Fresh Air A series of investigative reports over the last year has revealed that underage children, most of them migrants from Central America, are working some ...

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, and ...