President Trump’s pick to lead the United States Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will soon oversee the federal ...

West Virginia lawmakers focused on the state’s workforce challenges have prioritized passing a bill this session to remove ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

One was a surge in child labor, as employers brought in the cheapest labor they could find during a tight job market. The Labor Department reported in October that it had found 5,792 minors who ...

Unfortunately, child labor – legally defined as work that interferes with children’s physical and mental development and school attendance - is on the rise for the first time in two decades. In fields ...

Still, this galvanizing employment trend seemingly has an underbelly, as the recent boost in child labor law violations highlights. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...