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So when do the feds say enough is enough and implement severe penalties for all involved; ie: all profits the companies made x number of children working, charges/jail time for those who approved the kids to work? Cause whatever they are doing now obviously isn't enough.
Never. Things are getting worse out there and this is what families are going to do to survive.
All we have to do to fix these problems is pass national universal healthcare, raise the minimum wage, and start building housing as fast as possible. Given that we are not going to do any of those things more and more families are going to send their children into the labor force.
Alternatively, we can look to the past and see how the labor movement pressured the government to ban child labor in the first place.
I think the greatest irony are the redneck ancestors of current conservatives, who even then were not known for being nice people, looking down with disgust as they grovel for scraps at the feet of con men from the city.
These were real country folk who were willing to literally die for fair wages. Now they just gargle, swallow, and ask for seconds.
That would require an act of Congress to implement nationwide.
And Congress hasn't accomplished anything since 2010.
It's more likely that they'll pass a law rescinding child labor laws and legalizing these practices.
I saw it in the evening news show of a main TV channel (Das Erste) here in germany that Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas introduced a law to roll back child labour laws, which seems a few other of the GOP reigned, god fearing states also like.
Where several parts of Iowas new law are violating federal child labour laws (e.g. Hazardous Occupations Orders) and that's why those states are under federal investigation.
From Europe, I hope your gov keeps the promise of cracking down on migrant child labour in hazardous environment and other trends to return to pre-industrial times (e.g. caregivers who exploit the child labour) and offers those kids better possibilities. Those voters in Iowa, Nebraska and the likes are lost anyway.
Then they'll go home to their constituents and brag about how they: created jobs, reduced the price of chicken for families, and increased profits for chicken farmers.
It's a win-win-win, never mind the dead brown children.
Oh not just the brown kids. Republicans are also totally OK with sacrificing poor white kids.
CHIP act, the Inflation Reduction Act, etc. Congress can 100% pass shit if most of the obstructionists are not in control.
When are they going to make sure that all families have enough money to live on so that the children do not need to work?
Right?!? Let’s solve the actual problem not criminalize the symptoms further when already criminalizing the symptoms doesn’t work
But, and hear me out here, I'd like to see every employee (involved in the hiring or management) of ALL the companies involved pay a price for employing children in the first place.
That's not saying that a UBI shouldn't be enacted as well. I want both done.