Ten years ago, if you told Sanita Lama and Jaya Bhandari, two former child laborers, that one day they'd be sitting in Tufts' Hillel talking about their lives, they wouldn't have believed you. In fact ...

When news began surfacing this year about the exploitation of migrant child laborers in U.S. factories and businesses, it made clear the urgent need for union and community leaders to renew their ...

Florida has come up with a bold new strategy to tackle its labor shortage: roll back child labor laws to pick up the slack. In a plot twist that feels ripped straight from a dystopian satire, Florida ...

If there is a predictable outcome from the rollback of child labor laws now taking place in red states nationwide, it’s that a flood of injured children is on the way. We are now standing on the edge ...

Child labor violations have been on the rise since 2015 after declining for years, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division. The total number of violations is much ...

My mother grew up on a family farm, the sixth of seven children who all helped my grandparents with a seemingly endless list of chores – yet also had plenty of time to play, read, and go to school.

Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In ...

When the investigators came, operators of a Southern California poultry processor allegedly hid child workers in bathrooms and closets and hurried them out the back door, according to a U.S.

RAJSHAHI, Jan 8, 2026 (BSS) - Labour and Employment Secretary Dr Sanwar Jahan Bhuiyan today said child labour is extremely harmful to the physical and mental health of children, describing it as a ...

COTABATO CITY— Twenty more rescued child laborers, who are set to return to their schools, received over the weekend an initial P15,000 in cash assistance and school supplies each as part of the ...