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After pushing 12 states to roll back protections for minors, the media must call the Foundation for Government Accountability what it is: a broad deregulatory think tank. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Lydia Cacho / TruthdigMar 11, 2015
Injustice doesn’t have the same meaning for the average reader of this site as it does for a child who has grown up in precarious conditions, subjected to racism, a lack of emotional education and cultural training. Injustice doesn’t have the same meaning for the average reader of this site as it does for a child who has been forced to work. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 4, 2014
In spite of decades of international campaigns against child labor, children in Bangladesh as young as 10 years old continue to sew shirts and pants at all hours of the day and night. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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In order to combat what he views as a "culture of poverty," the newly minted Republican front-runner believes poor kids ought to be employed as janitors in their schools. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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The “haves” have been subjecting the “have-nots” to lives of miserable, crushing toil since polarized hierarchies appeared behind the walls of the world’s first city some 10,000 years ago. The names, faces and technologies change, but so far, the legacy of exploitation remains. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 14, 2010
Human Rights Watch is planning to release a report on Wednesday that documents widespread child and forced labor practices on the Central Asian farms that supply tobacco to Philip Morris' cigarette factory in Kazakhstan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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