Trump’s gutting of workplace safety enforcement comes as many states have rolled back their own efforts. That puts young workers at risk.

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

From public good to moral evil: state laws and child labor in the 1800s -- Divided, we fall: the Beveridge-Parsons bill -- Regulating child labor as interstate commerce: the Keating-Owen act and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Several states are increasingly relaxing child labor laws, as studies show labor violations on the rise and teens are being injured at work. Since the pandemic, it’s now easier in ...

Girl and boy lean in to cut vegetables for cooking food. How young is too young to work long hours? That is a subjective question that has come into the spotlight due to a recent action taken in the ...

As Indiana’s part-time legislature returned to the Statehouse in January, a new law allowed another group of Hoosiers to spend more time in the workforce. Those workers are teens, some as young as 14, ...