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A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
In recent years, the Republican Party has made a concerted effort to win back the support of working class voters by attacking labor unions and advocating for lower taxes and less government regulation. One way they’ve done this is by attacking child labor laws.
The Republican Party’s latest assault on children comes in the form of a bill, called the „Child Labor Deterrence Act of 2017,“ which would overturn many of the current child labor laws. The bill would allow children as young as 12 to work in certain hazardous occupations, and would also allow children to work more than 80 hours per week.
The bill has been met with criticism from both the left and the right, with many arguing that it will do nothing to deter child labor and will only allow children to be exploited. Others argue that the bill is a necessary step in reversing the trend of child labor being replaced by more dangerous and less productive jobs
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A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
Image Source: Marguerite Martyn – Original publication: “St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 29, 1906 – Public Domain Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the New York Times published an extensive investigative report by Hannah Dreier about scores of undocumented Central American children
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