October 20th, 2023: Bipartisan Bill Establishes New Criminal Penalties, Imposes New Steep Fines For Employers Who Violate Child Labor Laws
November 1st, 2023: Please listen to the October 2023 Chad and Cheese podcast here.
November 1st, 2023: Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
October 10th, 2023: Marcos was maimed while working the overnight cleaning shift at a Perdue slaughterhouse in rural Virginia–another amazing exposé New York Times reporter Hannah Dreier.
U.S. Department of Labor’s clickable map of the U.S. allowing users to compare their state’s child labor hour restrictions with other states. Click this link to view.
October 10th, 2023: Labor Department finds employers endangered children, bounced paychecks, stole tips
August 21st, 2023: Hear Reid’s discussion of alarming child labor trends in the U.S. here
August 18th, 2023: In the collective American mind, stories of labor rights abuses normally take place “over there” on the frontlines of globalization: firetrap factories in South Asia, children mining precious metals in Africa, union organizers assassinated on tropical plantations, human trafficking victims constructing stadiums in a World Cup host city
July 18th, 2023: I grew up in a small rural area named Center, Colorado which has a population of about 2,000 people
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