In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that should hold pencils and schoolbooks hammer rocks and search for the minerals that power electric vehicle batteries, solar cells, and ...

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...

More than two years after Iowa lawmakers passed a law loosening work requirements for teens, a study by a progressive ...

A year after lawmakers relaxed the state’s child labor laws, a divided Florida Senate panel on Tuesday gave initial approval to a measure that would further roll back work restrictions for kids as ...

Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would remove work restrictions for 16- and 17-year-olds and loosen restrictions for younger teens. The bill's supporters argue that it would help address ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It’s back. Florida Republicans are once again considering a plan to drastically change labor laws for certain teenagers, framing it as a matter of parental rights. But critics ...