If there is a predictable outcome from the rollback of child labor laws now taking place in red states nationwide, it’s that a flood of injured children is on the way. We are now standing on the edge ...

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 ...

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...

The low-paying fast food industry has driven the surge in violations of child labor laws, with teens working longer and later than permitted under federal law. (iStock/halbergman) One of the largest ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of the ...

The Department of Labor is cracking down on child labor violations even as multiple states have taken steps to loosen regulations around teenagers in the workplace. At least 11 states have recently ...

“If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed …, it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.” So said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1918, ...