A 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 lawmakers in at least another eight states had introduced similar measures.

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    1 year ago

    The USA is going speedrun mode straight to the shitter, the people need to wake the fuck up and put worthy people in power, whatever it takes. If this conservative trend doesn’t end (worldwide not just in the US) then this will end very badly for us, our kids, and their kids too. Things are looking more and more like the early industrial era and less like what people were hoping the world would be like during the 2000s…