Child Labor in the USA — again?

February 22, 2011

By FN Brill

Jane Cun­ning­ham a Mis­souri State Sen­a­tor has pro­posed a law the whole­sale repeal of child-labor laws in that state. The law would allow employ­ment of chil­dren under 14. She believes this will instill a “work ethic” in the young.

She says that her bill sim­ply loosens an overly broad pro­hi­bi­tion on child labor and would allow kids to work at movie the­aters, to babysit or to cut lawns, blam­ing the hys­te­ria on union “mis­in­for­ma­tion” and pol­i­tics.
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Source: World Socialist Party (US)