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‘Job Creator’ Republicans Think It’s Time Those Lazy Kids Go Back to Work
The republican party cares so much about working people, it has decided to do something truly meaningful: create more working people.
But not through supporting policies that create more jobs, increase the minimum wage, or promote unionization.
No, the republican party’s idea of “job creation” entails rolling back almost a century of child-labor regulations.
It wants to increase the work force by suffusing it with children.
According to a July 2022 Labor Department press release, child labor violations and investigations have increased over the past seven years.
Fiscal year 2022 saw a 37% increase involving 688 children working in hazardous conditions.
Alabama Hyundai and Kia factories, Nebraska and Minnesota JBS meatpacking plants, McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, and Chipotle have all been subjected to high-profile investigations.
Last month, the Biden administration fined Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. for hiring over a hundred children to perform one of the most dangerous jobs — cleaning meatpacking plants.
According to The Lever:
That company…has been repeatedly bought and sold by private equity funds that manage…
