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by Prickle 806 days ago
Yea no. They are using 12 year olds in incredibly dangerous manufacturing sectors. Since they don't want to pay higher wages in a competitive labor market, they instead start illegally using under-age labor, and throwing lobbying money at lawmakers so they can move on to legally hire underage kids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiar...

They don't get to go to school. They get to work 9 hour shifts instead. We all know why these laws need to exist, and attempting to role them back is the result of pure greed.

https://marshfieldresearch.org/Media/Default/NFMC/National%2...