Dredging up Dickensian horrors of child labor, the
Obama administration has ordered the Labor
Department to apply child labor laws to family farms.
The new rules would make i (
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Dredging up Dickensian horrors of child labor, the
Obama administration has ordered the Labor
Department to apply child labor laws to family farms.
The new rules would make it illegal for children to
perform a large number of labor tasks that have been
performed by farm families for centuries. Traditionally,
adults and children alike helped with planting and
harvesting in the spring and fall, but the federal
government is now determined not only to make this a
historical footnote, but a criminal offense. (
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