States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce
- Written by John A. Fliter, Associate Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in 2023 that lets children under 16 work without official permission from their parents.AP Photo/Andrew DeMilloA movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and...







