child labor

2 min read 2023-05-14 20:00:02

Observations Of The Iowa Legislative Session

In short, it stunk. I will just pass on a couple of observations. Over at the Iowa Capital Dispatch Kathie O’Bradovich calls the most recent

3 min read 2023-05-12 12:22:45

America’s social studies textbooks urgently need an update — on child labor. Our textbooks, ever since the middle of the 20th century, have been

3 min read 2023-05-06 20:00:07

Iowa has been the center of negative national attention this legislative session for many egregious act, not the least of which is changing child

3 min read 2023-05-06 11:05:00

— OPINION — Everybody should be familiar with the story so far. U.S. Department of Labor investigators in late 2022 and in early 2023, found

4 min read 2023-05-03 02:13:15

The weather is getting warmer and the sun is getting brighter, and you know what that means–employers everywhere are calling their lawyers to ask

3 min read 2023-05-01 23:45:00

Today is May Day — also known as International Workers Day throughout the world, except for the United States. It's a day meant to honor both

3 min read 2023-04-20 18:00:01

If Ian Millhiser says Samuel Alito's further two-day stay on the horrendous mifepristone decision is confusing, then it is confusing. (Vox) So

3 min read 2023-04-20 15:30:00

In 2014, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that about 40,000 children worked in mines in the south of the Democratic Republic of

5 min read 2023-04-20 00:30:01

The Iowa state Senate stayed up all night so it could pass a very important law expanding child labor early Tuesday morning. The bill, Senate File

2 min read 2023-04-18 23:45:38

Before the sun had even risen on Tuesday, the Iowa Senate passed a bill to loosen child labor laws, allowing the employment of kids in previously

2 min read 2023-04-18 23:45:38

Before the sun had even risen on Tuesday, the Iowa Senate passed a bill to loosen child labor laws, allowing the employment of kids in previously

2 min read 2023-04-18 11:05:00

Shortly after I began working in a daily newspaper newsroom, someone mentioned that a story “had legs.” I did not have a clue as to what he was

3 min read 2023-04-13 19:00:04

While few can doubt the emission-reduction might of solar; forced- and child labor in clean power supply chains is becoming a hot issue, which is why

4 min read 2023-03-27 02:53:42

[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne] It’s been quite a while since I posted an open thread around an open question, like what are you reading,

5 min read 2023-03-22 17:00:00

The Republicans pride themselves on being the party that protects children. In the Republican Party platform of 2016, the most recent we have because