Iowa lawmakers approved changes to state law to make it easier for minors to work for Iowa businesses. But, the changes are in conflict with stricter federal requirements and businesses are finding ...

There are only two types of investors: those who have unlawful child labor in their portfolios, and those who do not yet know that they have unlawful child labor in their portfolios. So we present ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network and ...

Child labor is a significant global problem, particularly in the developing world. Businesses big and small can be part of the solution by ensuring their supply chains are completely free of child ...

Spindle boys in Georgia cotton mill. Photo by Lewis Hine. Undated. Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have ...

In this article we will share the list of 20 countries that use child labor or forced labor for goods production. Although the world has progressed so much, two inhumane forms of labor — child labor ...

The fine for businesses that violate Iowa’s child labor laws by having teens work too many hours or work too late at night has been lowered this week. The penalty had been $10,000, but has been ...

“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, ...

As the winter sun rises behind him, Carlos Esteban Rios sits in a Costa Mesa parking lot, waiting for a ride from a boss he’s never met and looking over some chemistry homework he might never turn in.