“We have been tracking for a couple of years now the alarming trend that there are several states across the country that have actively been attempting to weaken child labor protections just at the same time as violations of child labor standards nationally have been on the rise over the last decade,” Sherer said in a phone interview with WVIK. “And digging into this, it’s very clear that what’s behind this is a coordinated multi-industry attempt to weaken child labor standards and expand employer access to low-wage labor essentially.”
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