In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that should hold pencils and schoolbooks hammer rocks and search for the minerals that power electric vehicle batteries, solar cells, and ...

A year after lawmakers relaxed the state’s child labor laws, a divided Florida Senate panel on Tuesday gave initial approval to a measure that would further roll back work restrictions for kids as ...

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...

TUCSON, ARIZ. (KGUN) — More children could be in dangerous child labor situations if Federal cuts continue that until recently have paid for legal services for migrant children. That’s the concern we ...

The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants. But that ...

Less than one year after approving a state law that loosened child labor restrictions for minors 16 and older, records show the Florida governor’s office pushed for additional rollbacks behind the ...

Last year, the Florida Legislature enacted significant changes to the State’s Child Labor Laws through House Bill 49, and its companion, Senate Bill, 1596, which Governor Ron Desantis signed into law ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It’s back. Florida Republicans are once again considering a plan to drastically change labor laws for certain teenagers, framing it as a matter of parental rights. But critics ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida lawmakers are considering a measure that aims to further roll back work restrictions for teenage students while school is in session. A state Senate panel narrowly ...