While the term “child labor” may conjure up sepia-toned images of factory urchins from the Industrial Revolution, reliance on young workers by U.S. businesses remains constant and has grown more ...

Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia Republicans have all rolled back child labor regulations while the number of violations has risen fivefold in the last decade ...

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 2020, a Ford dealership located in a suburb of Portland settled with the U.S. Department of Labor for nearly $28,000 over reported violations of federal child labor law. Federal investigators had ...

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.

The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing to pay a ...

Many major coffee brands outsource the sourcing of their coffee beans to countries where child labor isn't just allowed; it's ...

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 ...

The Indiana Senate is considering a bill that would totally eliminate Indiana's child labor reporting system. Employers would no longer be required to register and track minors on their payroll. It's ...