Lawmakers in several states have promoted, and in some cases enacted, rules to roll back child labor laws in hopes of creating more opportunities for minors to take on jobs that employers have ...

In the past two years, lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs, even as federal officials and news investigations suggest that many ...

Porchá Perry demonstrates with other workers in Lansing, Michigan, in favor of bills restoring local control to pass workforce and labor policies on Sept.13, 2023. A new report finds growing union ...

Child labor, often thought of as a problem only in other countries, is making headlines in the United States following a wave of Republican-led efforts to roll back protections in several states, most ...

High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night. That’s not a sentence I thought needed to be said, but here we are in 2023, and there are conservative lawmakers in ...

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 ...

Before the sun had even risen on Tuesday, the Iowa Senate passed a bill to loosen child labor laws, allowing the employment of kids in previously restricted fields like roofing, demolition, and ...

Child labor is back. That’s because rich corporations and their political parasites want it back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for penniless, unaccompanied migrant children to spend their ...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the pro-union Republican tapped by President Donald Trump for Labor secretary, testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday, ...