Last year, there were 835 child labor violation cases in the United States involving 3,876 children. The number of minors illegally employed in fiscal year 2022 was 37 percent higher than in fiscal year 2021, an
Adjust arbitrary child labor laws:Our child labor laws are laughable. The governing law of Michigan child labor was written in 1978, but verbiage sounds as if it was copy and pasted from a hundred years prior.“The minimum age for employment of minors is 14 years, except that a minor 11 ...
They reported a 33% decrease in 5- to 14-year-olds doing hazardous work. Areas cited for the most progress were Latin American and the Caribbean, while sub-Saharan Africa had made the least progress. In developed countries, there are more likely to be laws, standards, and regulations to ...
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or hi...
Notably the largest absolute declines occurred during this period among 18 to 19 year olds, the group of women most likely to benefit from liberalized access laws. In contrast, first birth rates among 15 to 17 year olds, individuals who were generally too young to benefit, underwent almost no...
In 1923 the U.S. Supreme Court in Adkins v. Children’s Hospital determined (5-3) that D.C.’s law was unconstitutional and “an arbitrary interference with the liberty of contract which no government can legally justify in a free land.” By Dec. 1932, minimum wage laws in six states...