Scripps News Investigates: A city’s not so secret child labor problem

When federal authorities recently fined a food sanitation company for employing underage workers in dangerous jobs at 13 meat processing plants, the U.S. Department of Labor said it showed there would be no tolerance for child labor in America. And yet a Scripps News investigation has found child labor likely occurred for years at one location in Grand Island, Nebraska before the Labor Department detected it and intervened this past year. Take a look! #childlabor #scrippsnews

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Child and immigrant labor is rampant in the farming midwest. General farms, hog farms, dairy farms etc...