First, a Labor Department investigation found more than 100 children between ... in securing passage of nascent child labor laws in the region during the early 1900s. But because state laws ...

The children ... and there are no admissions in the agreement to the contrary, Perdue recognized that a prolonged dispute with the Department of Labor did nothing to address the child labor ...

Meanwhile, some states are rolling back child labor regulations, with state policymakers arguing that such changes can provide parents with more flexibility in helping their kids get jobs.

Suddenly lawmakers in several states are rushing to relax child labor laws to ... the images of children in manufacturing and other dangerous work from the early 1900s? There is a reason our ...

fueling a resurgence in child labor not seen in a century, with children living far from their parents and working illegally in all 50 states. At slaughterhouses, it is no longer only Spanish ...

The department said that inspectors were pursuing more than 700 open cases and had already found 4,474 children ... “leaving no stone unturned to root out exploitative child labor.” ...