Child labor laws were passed, and authorized by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to deter the predatory behavior of employers toward young, vulnerable individuals like these boys working in Pennsylvania coal mines. (Photo from Iowa Capital Dispatch website by Lewis Hine/Records of the National Child Labor Committee, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs)
If the Republican Party doesn’t care about children being gunned down in their classrooms, why would you think they care about their welfare in any other aspect of their lives?
Another example of the GOP’s “Once you’re out of the womb you’re on your own” approach to governing can be seen as various Republican-controlled states advance efforts to weaken their child labor laws.
And even more disturbing is how that movement is being pushed by still another conservative group where rich folks give tons of money to the cause of improving their lot by making life worse for the poor and middle class.
Once again, the war of the rich against the rest of us rears its ugly head.
Here’s what’s been going on in some states:
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