Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory work, including having them take ...

Project 2025 Would Exploit Child Labor by Allowing Minors To Work in Dangerous Conditions With Fewer Protections The elimination of protections for young workers, if enacted, would lead more children ...

In the dead of night, at meat processing plants across eight states, more than a hundred children were using scalding water and hazardous chemicals to clean blood and animal parts from dangerous ...

Washington, D.C. — Federal laws have protected children from dangerous labor practices and workplaces for nearly 100 years—but the radical Project 2025 policy agenda aims to undermine those ...

The second time was the charm for a House bill that would loosen several state restrictions on child labor making its way through the Kentucky state legislature. With only five yes votes, House Bill ...

There are now 138 million child laborers, down from an estimated 160 million in 2020, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a joint report ...

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are entirely ...

(NewsNation) — Child labor violations are increasing, and over two dozen states have made moves that are exacerbating the issue, a recent report by Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute ...

The United States Department of Labor alleged on Thursday that Hyundai and two of its supplier companies illegally employed a 13-year-old who was kept working for up to 60 hours a week on an assembly ...