Bill stripping child labor protections in Florida to allow minors to work without breaks and before 6am and after 11pm on school nights just passed its final House committee. Public testimony was limited to one minute. Same bill DeSantis said is meant to replace migrant workers.
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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BREAKING: An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 9, 2024
Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.
Your party:
— Andrew Wortman 🟧 (@AmoneyResists) July 6, 2023
—Forces 10-year-olds to carry their rapists babies to term
—Passes bills to circumvent child labor laws
—Remains silent about the countless children sexually abused by the Catholic Church
—Supports child marriage
—Ensures that school shootings continue in America pic.twitter.com/DCTi3mMCrM
Aside from banning abortion access, and trans healthcare, expanding child labor has been a top priority for Republican state legislators this year. https://t.co/p7syiDvySi
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 18, 2023
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who agrees Republicans have lost their damn minds passing laws allowing child marriages in West Virginia and child labor in Arkansas.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) March 12, 2023
Protect your kids. Keep them as far away as possible from Republicans.
Right now, Mike Lee is railing against NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, which is the SCOTUS decision that permits the ban on child labor, the ban on whites-only lunch counters, the ban on employment discrimination, and the minimum wage to exist.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 23, 2022
