Operation Phobos

Republicans in Louisiana are cracking down on the scourge of child laborers taking breaks for lunch. 

Idaho state Rep. Ron Mendive has a plan to help balance school budgets: put kids to work.

Despite chocolate companies pledging to cut child labour, the problem has actually got worse, says report

Some cocoa and coffee farms are taking advantage of impoverished children who are now out of school and forcing them to work.

In late August, Hurricane Idalia, the strongest tropical storm to hit northern Florida since 1896, killed four people and caused up to $20 billion in damage. Thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis’ anti-immigrant law that has been called “draconian,” clean-up and rebuilding has been hard. 

It has been nearly 100 years since children were taken out of the coal mines and put in schools, but some red states, such as Arkansas and Iowa, are looking for a new option. For most farms, immigrant workers that came into the United States were hired to work in these jobs. 

A federal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of "oppressive child labor" after an investigation found it was employing dozens of children as young as 13—some of whom were injured while working...

AMMAN — Child labour has become a serious issue in Jordan, especially during the pandemic, according to officials.The National Child Labour Survey in 2016 showed that close to 76,000 children in Jordan are engaged in economic activitiy, 60 per cent of whom are engaged in hazardous work, including working with dangerous machinery, tools or heavy loads, working long hours or during the night, as well as in unhealthy environments such as landfills and recycling plants.

Kids as young as 10 and 11 are picking cash crops for giant international companies—and hardly anyone is watching to make sure the work is safe.