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A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $5.6 million to the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage during birth and whose ...
Dr. Nancy Harper is a leading child abuse pediatrician who testifies in trials across the Midwest. She’s claimed to have ...
The recent increase in workplace immigration raids must not deter other workers from exercising these same rights.
When deciding what to make for dinner, many of us think about how to balance making something affordable, delicious, and healthy. And we might consider ethical questions, like whether our food is ...
Making headlines recently, Madison County prosecutors have charged nine people with child abuse — allegedly hitting children and making them go without food — or attempted obstruction of an ...
Child labor on the rise This week's batch of settlements represent the final stretch of the Biden administration’s crackdown on child labor since 2023, when the Labor Department announced a new ...
Fewer child labor restrictions viewed as help filling jobs occupied by deportees SB 918, sponsored by Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, passed the Commerce and Tourism Committee on March 25 on a 5-4 vote.
Child labor in the U.S. agriculture and meat processing sectors has reached alarming levels, with estimates suggesting that between 300,000 and 500,000 children are working in agriculture alone.
Child labor violations have increased significantly in Minnesota — and across the country — in recent years as a tight labor market has coincided with a surge in unaccompanied migrant children ...
The number of child labor violations in Florida tripled from 95 in 2019 to 281 three years later, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics cited by the Florida Policy Institute.
01-17-2025 WORK LIFE Labor Department fines more slaughterhouses for child labor The Labor Department said that QSI employed children on overnight shifts at 13 meat processing plants.