OMAHA, Neb. — The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- The problem of children working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. All portfolios include child labor: no detection and no evidence of remediation are red flags. In the second of three articles in ...

All portfolios include child labor: no detection and no evidence of remediation are red flags. In the third and final article in this series, we share additional diligence questions and resources for ...

Iowa lawmakers approved changes to state law to make it easier for minors to work for Iowa businesses. But, the changes are in conflict with stricter federal requirements and businesses are finding ...

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...

In 2020, a Ford dealership located in a suburb of Portland settled with the U.S. Department of Labor for nearly $28,000 over reported violations of federal child labor law. Federal investigators had ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

At least half a dozen red states have stripped away some child labor protections, allowing children to work longer hours, or in hazardous jobs, or without parental approval, or without rest breaks.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While many Americans might be under the impression that child labor is ...

Regarding “DeSantis favors replacing ‘dirt cheap’ labor from illegal migrants with teens 14 and older” (March 25): While the state is at it, let’s go back several decades and let kids work at whatever ...