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Date: October 29, 2024 at 21:50:03
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child Labor Law |
URL: https://truthout.org/articles/project-2025-uses-parental-rights-to-justify-repealing-child-labor-protections/ |
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Buried among the 922 pages of Project 2025’s Mandate
for Leadership, the far right blueprint for the next
Republican president, is a proposal to make a major
change to federal child labor law.
Since the 1930s, the federal government has banned
children under 18 from working in occupations deemed
“particularly hazardous” for youth. The Labor
Department identifies specific off-limits roles,
including operating power saws and compactors, or
working in mines or near explosives. According to
Project 2025, this labor ban “results in worker
shortages in dangerous fields.”
“Some young adults show an interest in inherently
dangerous jobs,” assert the authors of the document,
which was published by the right-wing Heritage
Foundation. They propose a change: “With parental
consent and proper training, certain young adults
should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous
occupations.”
This proposal would remove the governmental power to
decide whether certain jobs are too dangerous for
children, and place that power instead in the hands of
parents. The suggestion is part of a larger right-wing
movement to loosen federal and state restrictions on
child labor. The think tank Economic Policy Institute
noted that from 2021 to 2023, largely a period of low
unemployment, at least 10 state legislatures moved to
weaken child labor laws, and rollbacks were enacted in
Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire and New Jersey.
Meanwhile, violations of existing child labor law are
on the rise. The Department of Labor reported an 88
percent increase in child labor violations from 2019 to
2023. Many unaccompanied, undocumented children are
exploited at their jobs in construction, factories and
slaughterhouses, illegally working with dangerous
machinery or on all-night shifts
When pushing for weakened child labor restrictions, FGA
relies heavily on parental rights language. Vice
President of Communications Nick Stehle asserted in a
Fox News essay that “the main push for [Arkansas’ law,
which FGA helped write] didn’t come from big business.
It came from families like mine, who want more of the
freedom that lets our children flourish.” The
organization published a 2022 article titled “How
States Can Streamline the Hiring Process for Teenage
Workers and Restore Decision-Making to Parents.”
More at link.
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Date: October 30, 2024 at 11:08:27
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child... |
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That's right! Get a tight beam on children of all
nonWhites/financially-challenged folks, put 'em to work *at
the youngest age possible,* get that slave mentality dug in
early, locked and loaded for life so they have no chance to
even expect anything else, let alone *aspire or dream* for
greaterness for themselves...
Monstrous motherfuckers...
There's no fucking way...
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Date: October 30, 2024 at 11:30:38
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child... |
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One of my grandmothers (born in 1906) was 2nd youngest
of 18 children and born in Detroit.
When she was 9 yrs old, she was sent to work at a cigar
family to help her family earn money. She got a nickel
a day, a day being 10-12 hrs long. Having competed 6th
grade, she'd had enough education, it was decided.
While working at the factory her skirt got caught in
one of the rolling machines and nearly killed her.
Girls weren't allowed to wear pants back then to work.
She was fired for being stupid, she was told.
btw, only 6 of those 18 children survived to adulthood.
Mostly because there were no vaccinations at the time
for things we take for granted...tuberculosis, small
pox, rubella, polio, pneumonia and flu, scarlet fever,
etc. ran rampant through the tenements of the inner
city working class back then.
She was the last survivor of all her siblings and died
in 1992, but not before we listened to all her stories
of "how it was" back then.
Ahh, the good old days when the oligarchs of it's time
were unregulated.
Trump and his own oligarchs would like to bring it all
back for you.
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Date: October 30, 2024 at 11:38:18
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child... |
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Bless her precious heart, and those of all other children
treated so abysmally in this way... I'm so sorry...
I just can't believe that there are enough humans in this
country who would be so blind as to put these monster in
power... I just can't.
And may heaven forbid but, should it happen, all's I'm
going to be good for is any role requiring me to put my
life on the line in some very immediate-consequences
context *for the ongoing cause of reacquiring victory for
freedom and human rights for All*...
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Date: October 30, 2024 at 10:56:40
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child... |
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I guess they're going to stop immigration by abusing our
own people, seniors, children so much no one else wants
to come and holds us up as a horrible example of a
country you don't want to be.
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