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Until The New York Times published an astonishing series in February on pervasive child labor abuses in the United States, such exploitation widely was regarded as a relic of the past. The series ...

The Iowa legislature has passed a Republican-led bill that would roll back child labor protections, including the hours teens are allowed to work and the establishments where they can be employed. If ...

The Labor Department has opened inquiries into whether migrant children were working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants. By Hannah Dreier Hannah has spent the past year and ...

You may think that child labor was abolished a century ago, at least in the United States. That was never quite true. The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed during the New Deal, outlawed “oppressive ...