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Senators Hawley And Booker Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill To Combat Child Labor: ‘Cracking Down On Violations’
Senators Josh Hawley and Cory Booker have reintroduced a bill that aims to prevent child labor exploitation.
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Mars Inc, Candy Conglomerate Uses Cocoa Harvested By Children As Young As 5-Years-Old
Children as young as 5-years-old in Ghana have been discovered using machetes almost as large as they are in order to harvest the cocoa beans needed for some of America’s most popular chocolate bars and candy.
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Bipartisan Bill Aims To Strengthen Penalties For Child Labor Violations
A new Senate bill that aims to strengthen child labor laws in the United States, amid a recent surge in child labor violations, has been formally introduced.
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Illinois Becomes 1st State With Law That Protects Child Influencers
Illinois passed a law that ensures that children who are shown on social media are paid by their parents who profit off of them.
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Kids clean slaughterhouses
In what the Labor Department dubbed a “corporate-wide failure” by one of the biggest food sanitation companies in the nation, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. has been discovered to have had 102 minors as young as 13, employed in dangerous nocturnal positions, cleaning slaughterhouses in eight states.