Making Child Lanor Great Again!

I'm all for children working.  I've been employed since I was 11.  Working conditions are a different issue.  Wages are also an issue.  Children working goes against the American system of infinite debt.  Heaven forbid kids learn the value of money and work, they might do something crazy like grow up and pay their credit card bill on time.  

Backsliding business bitches suck. Anything for a goddamn buck.

U.S. Fines Firm $1.5 million for Hiring Kids to Clean Meatpacking Plants

The company, Packers Sanitation Services, allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use caustic chemicals to clean “razor-sharp saws,” head splitters and other dangerous equipment at meatpacking facilities in eight states, mostly in the Midwest and the South, in some cases for years. The plants are operated by some of the country’s most powerful meat and poultry producers, including JBS Foods, Tyson and Cargill. Those companies were not charged or fined.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/child-labor-meatpacki...

https://www.pssi.com/senior-leadership/

Who knew what when?

"Jimmy"?

Surprised they're not based in TN where, if some repubs had their way, you could marry off your never-vaccinated 10 year old.

kids deserve all the lanor that comes their way

>>>Anything for a goddamn buck.

^This should be our national motto. 

No responsibility or culpability for children laborers' well being is a play taken out of the cartel's playbook.   The bulk, if not all,  of Congress is really nothing more than a group of regulatory whores for hire for the wealthy, and voted in by the poor.

Well said^^

In theory it's not necessarily a bad idea, if the work is directly tied to the school districts as a well-designed work experience class, with close teacher oversite while students work afternoons a couple of days a week and also participate in a classroom component involving skills study, job success strategies, money management, etc.

But of course in reality, at best all of that will mostly be given lip service and the students will just be used/taken advantage of.

I made a pretty good living teaching just that sort of class for almost 20 years and I've seen it work very well, but it has to be set up and run properly by both the schools and the work sites.

And what are the chances of that happening on a large scale?

I was an exploited farm worker at age 11.  $4 per day getting in the tobacco.