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In Our Fields

Child Labor Coalition welcomes the Senate Introduction of the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety Act of 2024 (CARE Act)

Press Release March 25, 2024 Media contact: National Consumers League – Reid Maki,

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Thu Apr 4 2024

Senator Luján Press Release: During Ag Week, Luján Introduces Legislation to Improve Child Protections and Safety Standards for Agriculture Industry

Press Release/March 21, 2024 Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.)

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Thu Mar 21 2024

Child Labor Personal Experience: Growing Up in the Fields

by Jacqueline Aguilar, Child Labor Coalition intern I grew up in a small rural area named

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Tue Jul 18 2023

Amazing, must-listen podcast….“Why Are States Loosening Child Labor Laws?” –New York Times child labor reporter Hannah Dreier and the CLC’s Norma Flores López on Roy Woods Jr. video podcast, “Beyond the Scenes – The Daily Show”

Amazing, must-listen podcast…. “Why Are States Loosening Child Labor Laws?” —New

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Wed May 10 2023

Do Children in America Ever Work in Deplorable, Dangerous, Dickensian Conditions? The Short Answer is “Yes” — The Child Labor Coalition’s Top Ten U.S. Child Labor Developments in 2022

By Reid Maki, Child Labor Coalition Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. still has child

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Thu Feb 2 2023

My Path from Strawberry and Blueberry Fields to College

By Alma Hernandez Imagine being a five-year-old child; happy and carefree. The age where you either

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Thu Aug 4 2022

US Should Protect Young Farmworkers–Lawmakers, Labor Department Need to Act

Margaret Wurth Senior Researcher, Children’s Rights Division [This piece originally appeared

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Thu Jun 30 2022

CLC and Several Members Join 100 Organizations in Asking EPA to Immediately Ban the Pesticide Clorpyrifos which Damages Children’s Neurological Systems

March 5, 2021 OPP Docket #

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Tue Mar 9 2021

It’s Time for U.S. Tobacco Companies to Protect All Child Tobacco Workers with a Complete Ban on Children in Tobacco Fields

By Reid Maki, Child Labor Coalition In 2014, under pressure from advocacy groups like the Child

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Mon Aug 3 2020

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