US legislators should be cracking down on child labor. But they want more | Akin Olla

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created a federal minimum wage and banned children under 16 from "hazardous" work, but left agricultural workers out of many of its reforms.
57% : Holes like this can increase the value of individual workers and allow them to negotiate for higher wages, a trend that followed the bubonic plague in Europe.
48% : These policies allowed the US to maintain its long history of relying on slavery and near slavery for its agricultural wealth and give companies the ability to replace adult workers with children when adult workers demand decent pay - an increasingly common occurrence since Covid-19 reminded workers of how important they are, and how little they are valued.

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