Arkansas rolls back child labor protections

Other states are also considering loosening child labor protections. A bill advancing in Iowa would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work certain jobs in meatpacking plants and would shield businesses from civil liability if a youth worker is sickened, injured or unalived on the job. #shorts #arkansas #childlabor

[Plumtopia]

"if adults don't wanna work for minimum wage, we'll find someone who will"

[jorik]

I see Arkansas solved the problem that wages are too low to live on, by basically forcing you to also let your kids work underpaid jobs to get just enough to survive. Victoria business men would be proud.

[nicodemusedwards]

Let’s get ourselves some proper, patriotic, AMERICAN Sweat Shops

[JABRIEL]

Here we thought time travel was impossible. Turns out, you don't need a machine, just out of touch lawmakers.

[sanguiniusonvacation]

Poor kids will be forced to work, will do poorly in school because of it, and stay poor.

[nathanieleck]

This video doesn’t go nearly far enough to cover what happened at those meat packing plants.

They had over 100 children as young as 10 working in cleaning slaughter houses and meat processing plants. That’s a whole different level of disgusting, and if you look at the pictures it’s something straight out of an upton Sinclair novel.

[shadowwalker]

Anything that is a fine is a punishment, with no jail time, just means it's a crime for the lower class.

[jacobprice]

Don't you love how we're literally regressing as a society?

[anoddrabbit]

The subcontractor was QSI sanitations and the customer was ok foods and various chicken facilities idk it just really bugs me no one is calling the companies out by name

[coolguyfry]

I love how the people this involves can’t even vote for or against it. Indentured servitude

[Riot_Bird]

All the BS lately makes me feel ashamed of my home state

Just remember people it was never actually about the children

[mitab]

At this rate, children in kindergartens would have multiple jobs and even with all that money they saved their whole life, they still won't be able to pay for college

[chesthoIe]

Cool, this means no one on the Republican side will mind when we lower the age at which you can vote.

Old enough to pack meats, old enough to vote.

[pasalking]

The US with the 3rd world country energy

[LMF]

Time to bring back Lewis Hines photos used to help crack down on child labor

[glitchcaptor]

Yeah and I got arthritis by age 21 because I started worked at 8 years old 🤡 my joints resemble someone double my age. And I was doing farm work which is one of the least regulated fields in the USA for child labor

[amarketing]

Iowa made laws in the middle of the night to allow children to work longer hours. They didn't want the public to stop them.

[rooster]

not only that but I'm pretty sure most high schools in Arkansas are now going to be requiring students to complete at least 75 hours of community service in order to graduate from high school. Totally not free child labor!

[alexandst]

not saying child labor is ok, but why do they not treat kids like humans when hiring them? what makes them think "i hired a child so now i can make him do the most dangerous shit ever and pay them pennies"?

[frankiecedeno]

I don’t see the problem, everyone knows:

The children yearn for the mines