Ten years ago, if you told Sanita Lama and Jaya Bhandari, two former child laborers, that one day they'd be sitting in Tufts' Hillel talking about their lives, they wouldn't have believed you. In fact ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) sets federal child labor requirements, establishing a floor for maximum hours among ...

In June of 1924, researchers with the National Child Labor Committee spread out across Mesa, Montrose and Delta counties, talking to families whose children — some as young as six years old — worked ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

Eastern Iowa laborers are disappointed with the state's lobbying for looser child labor restrictions. At a roundtable hosted at the IBEW 405 Union Hall in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday night, ...

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 ...

Florida Democrats have joined Republican state lawmakers in supporting a bill that would weaken the state’s child labor protections, relying on changes made by the Republican bill sponsor to water it ...

Amid a rise in the illegal use of child labor in the U.S., a group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at cracking down on businesses that employ underage workers. The Child Labor ...

Florida has come up with a bold new strategy to tackle its labor shortage: roll back child labor laws to pick up the slack. In a plot twist that feels ripped straight from a dystopian satire, Florida ...