Inside the Conservative Campaign to Relax Child Labor Laws | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- In an extraordinary development for labor law in the United States, the Foundation for Government Accountability -- a Florida-based conservative think tank -- has been convincing Republicans to allow kids as young as 14 to work longer hours in arguably more dangerous conditions. A number of U.S. states, including Iowa and Arkansas, are getting on board. In a recent article, Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage explains how campaigners are cloaking these rollbacks under cover of "parental rights." Bogage joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss why conservatives appear willing to put children at risk.
Originally aired on April 27, 2023.
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This isn’t actually about children’s rights, it’s about disassembling what conservatives consider the fourth branch of government, the administration, or the administrative branch. This is about weakening the federal government to the point where the individual does not hold rights any longer. It’s so much bigger than this one issue. And it’s super effective.
Under-rated comment, so far.
Agreed, and I'd add it is probably heavily about the push to move manufacturing back to the USA. The whole reason that companies offshored everything was because they could go to wherever they could pay people the least amount of money possible. That bit them in the behind when COVID hit and supply chains were disrupted. Now there's political pressure to onshore supply chains, and the business lobby has decided it would be great if they could just have child wage slaves here in the US.
Technically the executive branch is the the "administrative branch"
@@ee-ef8qr 🤦♀️
Voting is just like driving: to go FORWARD, choose "D"; to go BACKWARD, choose "R."
Perfect analogy.
This should ne a campaign slogan!
🎉There needs to be more than D & R. both are failing the people!
I guess you can't parralel park like most liberals?
Yeah. Just what the USA needs, more stupid slogans.
This is just another way to ensure cheap labor from a permanent underclass. If you go to school all day and work all night, guess who won’t do well in school?
Also may not have to pay “a living wage”that citizens are demanding.
Rethuglicans at their very best
I did it (worked overnight weekends and 40+ hours some weeks) and graduated early by 6 months. I did go to sleep in class sometimes, which caused the teachers to accuse me of being on drugs. They think the working poor are all future criminals and on drugs anyway.
Underclass status isn't permanent in the USA. Most millionaires in the US are first generation. Denying kids a chance to earn money and learn skills is BS. It's just another roadblock to getting out of the working poor. Online High School classes that can be taken anytime would be a better solution.
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 sounds exacly like how the Repubs would want you to think. What "jobs" could kids potentially learn from? lawn mowing? burger flipping? cashier perhaps? your argument is inadequate. To add to it, most millionaires ARE from wealthy families.
So, according to conservatives, children exposed to drag queen story time is more dangerous than a child working in a factory! Got it! 😮
Remember that if any of these laws are challenged & get to the Supreme Court guess who will prevail? This is shameful!
50 years of darkness. RGB dying was our 1870’s moment where progress will be thrown backwards for the next several generations.
What do we expect otherwise from the "pro-capital punishment, pro-life" Republican Party?
Cheap labor, still looking for slaves to get the work done!! Unbelievable!! This is our future we need to protect them from these types of jobs!!
🎉Women are just going to stop 🛑 birthing more children to feed this broken system🎉
"These types of jobs" include fast food and even lawn care, according to the guy on the right. At what point should people learn to cook and use power tools? When they're over 21? Will you ban sports participation and driving while you're at it?
The problem is that the official sponsors of immigrant children are the ones trafficking them and extorting money from them. Blocking teens from having legit jobs won't fix this, the cartels will just have those kids pro$tituting and dealing drugs to pay for their transportation to the US instead!
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Protect the Children Vote Blue!
@@HOHLfmly This isn't about red vs blue! There were " kids in cages" and being sold into debt slave farm labor during the Obama administration, too. Banning legit, honest jobs for teens is not the answer. They're better off getting real work experience they can use to get better jobs once they pay their debts to the cartels. Or would you rather see them get locked up for drugs and pr0$titution?
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Employ children so you don’t have to raise wages in a tight labor market. They have never wanted free markets they have only ever wanted free discretion to extract as much as possible from workers. Let the 14 year old work the overnight shift on a school night and pay them $7.25 an hour
Oh, this type of employer will pay children less than $7.25 an hour. And figure out all kinds of things to deduct as well.
"Business to cut costs" vs record corporate profit.
Wow! I am impressed by how good Jacob is at communication. He does it in a paused and clear way; his message is very structured, but engaging. Great person to bring on the show. Jacob, thanks got sharing your work it is amazing.
He is very good in explaining how terrible these laws are.
Whatever happened to the concept of allowing children to actually have a childhood? Children are not adults. They are vulnerable and need to be protected. We can't allow these powerful people to exploit them for money.
Why keep the teens poor by not letting them work? Liberal politicians excuse teen criminals who rob stores and carjack by saying they lack "economic opportunity" and " something to do", THEN they complain about them getting work, which gives them both!
The problem is that the official sponsors of immigrant children are the ones trafficking them and extorting money from them. Blocking teens from having legit jobs won't fix this, the cartels will just have those kids pro$tituting and dealing drugs to pay for their transportation to the US instead!
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You heard it “children don’t form union and don’t complain. For all those defending this, do actually think is ok that a 10 year old work in a meat packing plant?
@@zren2023 First, I'd want to see your proof that there was actually a 10 year old working in a meat packing plant. There was a report recently about 10 year olds working at Mc Donald's at 2AM and further investigation determined they were kids of the night manager who were not supposed to be in that part of the restaurant. I believe the restaurant was fined, which is good.Secondly, you have to think in terms of lesser evil. Illegal immigration isn't going away anytime soon, so kids are better off working any legit job that selling drugs and p®0$tituting to pay bask the cartels that smuggled them into the country.
@@zren2023 What sort of fucking grotesque barbarian monstrosity defends this? wtf
GOP white paper: Close the public schools and get them kids to work.
Do people forget that 14 year old's are still in school? They need to have time to do their homework etc. During school days a 14 should not work more then 2 hours a day TBH and max 12 hours a week. But during x-mas holiday or so a 14 can work 35, 40 hours a week but only simple jobs that has low responsibilities.
They don't forget, but that age would be easier to exploit. They know what they're doing.
A lot of these kids are illegals and debt slaves to the cartels. Hour restrictions and age restrictions won't help them, they'll just have to get a second fake ID and work a second job ( and miss out on benefits and overtime).
Who is paying this “accountability” organization to push this legislation out?
YES!!! Follow that trail to find the sick sh*t who came up with this vile idea!!!
We need to name publically all those people who are in favor of child labour. Out them. They are animals. Then check them for child trafficking. I am talking about the big guys here. The main players.
The problem is that the official sponsors of immigrant children are the ones trafficking them and extorting money from them. Blocking teens from having legit jobs won't fix this, the cartels will just have those kids pro$tituting and dealing drugs to pay for their transportation to the US instead!
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Changing laws is a very dangerous path that can lead to lawlessness.
Make the punishments for labor violations dramatically more severe. Fines should be 10x what they are now, and the managers and executives who flagrantly violate labor laws should face prison time.
Basically children are more vulnerable to abuse. That is why they are being targetted.
Oh no, we gotta cut costs! - never _in the world_ would occur to them to cut C-suite paychecks.
The Federal government should sue these states and organizations.
Of course. What better way to ensure a reliable source of cheap labor for small and medium size businesses in the tough and dangerous jobs while reducing the flow of immigrants?
Some of the working teens ARE immigrants. Do you want to put up a roadblock against them being able to provide for themselves and support their families?
That is their plan! Use immigrants until those not aborted babies are old enough, then they can close the borders!
The problem is that the official sponsors of immigrant children are the ones trafficking them and extorting money from them. Blocking teens from having legit jobs won't fix this, the cartels will just have those kids pro$tituting and dealing drugs to pay for their transportation to the US instead!
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@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 How's the BOT BIZ GOING COMRADE?
@@71suns What's your point? What have I said that isn't factual? Let's hear why you think my conclusions are wrong.
Got to fill those vacant jobs somehow. It will take 15 years for the results of courts in the overturning of Roe to supply companies with people to work for them in low paying jobs. That’s what that is about too. Mark my word.
Pathetic!!! And rediculous idea.
As soon as we have the names of these companies It's possible they are going to go through some things.
WHAT?
Child Labor?
There is absolutely no justification for children to be anywhere but school.
This is not The 1920’s.
This should not be a topic for discussion.
Sometimes the Government should protect children from parents abusing them by sending them out to work instead of going to school.
Or transing them, which is the worst crime against children possible.
Hard work is a part of life. Kids have to learn to use reasonable caution at some point or they become soft, dependent, adults scared of power tools and even cooking equipment! States should have some truant officers giving out fines, provide online anytime classes or whatever they need to do to boost school completion. Reducing or denying job opportunities isn't going to make kids spend their free time studying and just contributes to poverty and dependence on the government.
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7I guess generations of people who didn’t experience child labor never learned about hard work.
@daydreamer Generations and situations. You should give thanks.
@@daydreamerz They have to do something tough to become tough. At what point do you want your kid to work and pay their own way? Do you want them to be living at home at 30? 40? Will you also block your teens from playing sports and driving? Those can be dangerous or fatal as well.
Where is the federal government in all this? Why is there no legislation against employing children under 16 years of age?
I employed kids as young as 14 (telling parents they're gone if they skip school or their grades slip).
But it wasn't hosing down killing floors on graveyard shift.
14 year old kids should go to school, not work. It`s a shame that you are communicating to children parents that work is better than school for a 14 year old. You couldn`t care less about those children. The only thing you`re after is cheap labor which is sad.
@@yellyman5483 Thought I communicated that school was more important. It was a small community, and I reached out to the school principal and individual parents beforehand. It wasn't a work experience program, but full wage experience for part-time, light work. Their productivity goals were adjusted accordingly, and adult staff fell over each other to encourage the kids and show them teamwork. A few of those kids remain in touch, with pictures of their own families and businesses. But you know best.
@@danmayberry1185 So what do you think about child labor, and the two states that are trying to legalize it? 14 year old kids should go to school. It`s about their future. You need a good education to secure a good life. I would never recommend to poor parents that they should allow their kids to work instead of going to school.
@@yellyman5483 I must not write very clearly. My rule was, if your kid skips school or their grades slip, they can't work for me (on weekends). That rule held until kids graduated. There was no working "instead of school." I think a lot of jurisdictions allow kids to leave school at 16, but I'm not in favor of that, personally. A separate issue is children in the migrant workforce, which is more a humanitarian topic.
@@danmayberry1185 Migrant children should also go to school. I`m so glad i don`t live in a state with a governor like Sarah Sanders Huckabee.. That woman is a complete disgrace. We all saw how she lied as white house press secretary. I`m not surprised that she is trying to legalize child labor in her state. She reminds me off that crazy idiot who is running Florida. I used to have a lot of respect for the GOP. They had great people like Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Now, they`re reduced to people like Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It`s a damn shame.
So this is the genius policy response to labor market shortages, while stifling immigration and yet supporting economic growth? The humble allen wrench can’t fix this level of depravity.
Millions of illegal and semi-legal immigrants are pouring over our border. A lot of them are teens, too and want a chance to earn and support themselves and their extended families! What's your solution? Have them hang around and give them welfare? Maybe we can just send checks to everyone in South America and pay them not to come here?
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 shark trench
@@SelectKiko Yeah, right. Based on our border "wall", which is a fence, It would end up costing around 30 billion we don't have, the trenches would be more like golf course ponds and the sharks would promptly get slaughtered and turned into tacos de tiburon. Republicans would blame Dems, and Dems would accuse Republicans of animal cruelty for putting saltwater ocean fish in fresh water.
Notice to working children . . . If you intend to go to college 100% of your earnings must be saved to offset the cost of that education. 100% is considered as an asset for any scholarships, grants or loans. Helping out with family expenses should not be a burden for a child to carry.
You're not thinking in real- world terms. Is it better for a family to go homeless than for a kid to help out with rent? If a teen is saving for college, he's going to withdraw those savings and hold them as "mattress money" prior to applying, so that they don't disqualify him from financial aid.
Child Labor = Devaluation of service and manual labor for all who work those jobs. Additionally, children from poor families will sacrifice education for minimal wages. This, in turn, will make it easier to defund public education. The goal has always been to roll back all of the Progressive Movement's laws.
Not all 14 year olds have the capability or capacity to recognize when they are trying to do something that is physically or mentally impossible for them to do a specific task, to analyze the risks of bodily harm of an action they are asked to do, to know when they need to hydrate, and to know when they are too sick or tired to carry on and make themselves a hazard to everyone, including themselves.
I speak from personal experience so I will provide a few exampkes.
I lived and worked on family farms until I was almost 40.
I have lived through, or my friends and neighbors have lived through experiences that resulted in physical harm. Sometimes these injuries caused lifelong harm.
Begining at age 11, I was the first one on the the back of the horses we raised in order to train, commonly called break them, into allowing a rider on their back. The ones we foaled and raised were gentle, they all knew me, and recognized that I was the one who most often fed them, cleaned their stalls, an brushed their itchy spots so they were easy to work with. Unlike the wild ones which were bought straight off the plains. They were stuffed into crowded horse trailers, driven directly to our farm, and then lead into tie stalls, all without a stop to rest and eat. These horses were wild and afraid of humans which made them dangerous to handle, especially for a maybe 80 pound 11 year old. I was strong from all of the heavy farm activities, like lifting many 70 pound bales of hay or draging around 100 pound grain sacks and I was overconfident in my ability to make them do what I wanted, which resulted in falls with head traumas from the falls or direct contact with our 12" diameter fence posts (twice). I was expected to do this work, no questions from me because I enjoyed working with the horses. At that age I was horse mad.
My latest count of concussions was 14. There were many different head traumas causing my many concussions, most of which rendered me unconscious.
My doctors said that I have Post Concussive Syndrome. The lifelong effects to me that I recognized are dizziness, severe headaches, forgetfulness, foggy thinking, and sometimes extreme fatigue.
I knew that I could get hurt by the horses, but not that I would experience lifelong effects.
I had one 16 year old neighbor who almost completely severed off his foot because he forgot to flip the circuit breaker before climbing up the grain silo to free up the power unloader. He kicked it loose and it immediately started grabbing his foor. Another neighbor's daughter lost her hand to above her wrist to a bale elevator's gears.
On our dairy farm, whenever anyone was asked to do something dangerous, especially a task involving any powered farm equipment, it was standard proceedure to explain all the risks involved and most importantly how to shut the equipment off. Remind everyone to not come in contact with any moving parts.
One day my sister-in-law and her son were asked to set the 70 pound bales of hay on the hay elevator which would carry them up to the hay mow (2nd floor). This piece of equipment was powered by the power-take-ofd (PTO) shaft on our smallest tractor. The first thing I did was to show them how to quickly turn off the tractor, and then made them each do it for themselves. The second was to explain to them not to touch any of the moving parts, especially any moving gears or the 18:36 PTO shaft. I made sure that they both had water bottles and knew how important it was to keep hydrated, and gloves to protect their hands.
Dick, her husband, and I were in the hay mow to move and stack the bales neatly in the hay mow to save space. We had worked through a couple wagon loads of hay when I heard Dick yelling. I ran across the hay bales to join Dick the barn door. He had grabbed the sides of the door frame and was trying to stall the tractor. I looked out past him and his wife was standing beside the tractor screaming, while her son was spinning on the PTO shaft. She had forgotten how to shut it down. Dick started to step back from the window and drop down the hay shute to go help them. I pushed him back up to the window. We both grabbed hold of the fame and shoved our feet against one of the elevators paddles. Together, between the two of us, we managed to slow the tractor enough that the PTO spit his son off. We all flew into rescue and first aid mode. Ron had broken both bones in his forearm, with one a compound fracture. He managed to peal a layer of skin off of that arm and all the way around to his ribs. Ron was very lucky that he had tucked his head into the spin and not out or the spinning PTO shaft would have ripped his head off. Double that luck because of the adrenaline fueled strength of Dick and I, we were strong enough to stall the small John Deer tractor.
We lived 35 minutes from the county hospital, which had him transported to the nearest larger hospital with a pediatrics unit and bone surgeons.
My purpose of these examples is to shiw that harm can happen to farm kids, even with adult supervision. I cannot even imagine all of the risks found in a meat packing plant or other industrial works. I read that the meat plant had 1 supervisor per 60 kids.
I bet that kids could even wind up in our mines.
If you really want to solve the issue of children working to supplement their family income, then you must: pass a minimum wage that will allow their parents to support their family with enough left for primary incidentals; implement universal health care; provide free tuition for universities, 2 & 4 year colleges: sit down and fix our immigration laws; implement laws which facilitate our migratory farm workers who are desperately needed by our farmers. These workers often go to the same farmers each year. This is important to our farmers because these farm workers are dependable sources of the hands that are needed seasonally. These workers will shift locations to follow the crop harvests.
I understand that they would keep their families in one place if they earned enough money to do so.
Thank you for sharing this.
If we're gonna roll back to the 50s, let's start with rolling TX rates back to the Eisenhower era,
Amen.
I just looked up the Foundation for Government Accountability, didn't spend a lot of time on the website, but because I have experience with unemployment (worked for EDD in California) the information on their website is misleading, we were told we had to give people UI without having to get a work history. We didn't want to do this because it was not the purpose for UI, it's purpose was to give the unemployed workers funds until they were hired somewhere. We were instructed to do it because the congress voted it in and can't blame democrats for the COVID payments because trump was president and the senate majority was republican, as employees of the Employment Department we had to honor congress's direction.
Another thing I am writing is because my Grandmother left her native country was because she did not want her children to have to stop their education and go to work. My Grandmother was 13 and went to work along side her sister and mother working 12 hour days. I realize the laws this organization is pushing isn't asking for that...YET. I wonder what else these people think will "improve" the workforce?
Foundation for Government Accountability. What a misleading name. Anyone else wondering that most people don’t realize what they really are?
Employees should make enough money that they do not need to tell their children into slavery which is essentially we’re going to pay people so little money that they were forced to tap their children to help make the basic no no no bad
It is already lawful for children to work in the USA. Foreign children are allowed to labor our farms.
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The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
So the idea is instead of opening up some space fot imagrants to come in and pick up the economic stack by taking low wage manual labor jobs so that everyone can rise up together and grow higher paying jobs for the middle class, which is bad for MAGAs because it'd be good for the country and the economy and in the future those imagrants could become legal voters which all leads to a better country in which the majority votes for whats best for everyone -- so to stop that, create more poverty, endanger our children (the babies from forced birth) like child sweat shops in Indonesia and all because the more desperate and uneducated masses are much easier to control. Its soooo awful! Why are people like this!?
Please do not have kids if you expect them to work their butts off instead of focus on school.
Please for the love of anything good, do not have kids if you cannot set them up with a good life.
Rich kids are so spoiled I can't even get my mind around it.
Poor kids get treated like crap and pushed to the point where they're burnt out by the time they're 25.
I witnessed this over and over for 40 years.
Do not have kids if you cannot afford them, please.
Children are human beings, souls. They're not here to be commodified or used.
Perhaps some labor element needs to be introduced in public education. You only learn how difficult, tedious and exhausting it is to serve others by doing a real routine job to company standards. Even if its only on weekends, it is real work experience. I would suggest the teens would get paid minimum wage, so the incentive would be cash in hand, but ready cash is not everything--it loses its charms as individuals mature. It might help kids recognize (even if slowly) that educational performance is the better way to the better jobs.
That just seems like a crutch as a substitute for comprehensive education. I've never been in the military or been in a gunfight, but I've read accounts of warfare by actual war veterans, and what media depictions I've seen (with real veterans as technical advisors) was sufficient to impart upon me the importance of peace and diplomacy, and how war is not something to seek out.
Suggesting that understanding can ONLY be achieved through experience only encourages brutalization as a teaching instrument. That only perpetuates the cycle we keep trying to escape.
@@Theomite Well said. Bravo.
"Foundation for Government Accountability"? 😂
"Family Research Council"
"Americans for Prosperity"
Just like the words "Democratic Republic" in country names - the more innocuous the name, the worse the group actually is. 🤬
Pro-life?
Cause they care about children so much😮
Wanting kids to learn job skills and become independent adults that can pay their own bills is "abuse" now? Working as a teen is as bad as being ripped limb from limb, and then having a hole made in your skull, which is then vacuumed out and crushed (as is done in an abortion)?
Precisely!
how is this called “conservative”?
Why not just bring back child labor, close schools and bring back slavery?
They are working on it.
Quit your drama queening. Working after school helps kids learn skills and earn money for college. Their salaries help with family expenses and reduce homelessness.
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 So, I guess working in a meat processing is good? Fine with me. Back when I was in high school, I shoveled out horse barns for $40.00 a week. Not a dangerous job however. I see that you are one of the people who do believe in forced child labor. Nice!
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 Trolling comrade?
@@71suns Take a look in the mirror. If you think what I'm saying is false or my conclusions are unsound, let's hear your "better" take on the situation. BTW, what's with this "comrade" BS? Are you calculating that I'm a right winger and "comrade" will trigger me?
If kids can start doing foodpanda or ubereats delivery at the age of 16 why not?
Does the Democratic Party have a similar lobbyist group drafting legislation for them?
The way this guy describes "who is effected" reeks of classicism, and makes me glad they're passing these new laws breaking down the barriers to opportunity for young people.
If one of these clueless people came to me when I was a teen and told me they were going to "protect" me from working my way (out of the working poor class) I'd have given them the one finger salute for sure!
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 Oh boy I recognize the drunk behind the keyboard……how is my drunk uncle?
@@monpayscanada, maybe your uncle needs to get drunk to speak the truth, or maybe he gets drunk because he's disgusted to be surrounded by snoflakes and pantywaists? " Ooo! Stove too hot! Lawnmower loud and scary! Cleaning chemicals dangerous!" Combine that with the trend of handing out "educational" cartoon p0®n to grade schoolers and you're going to end up with a generation of social media bimbo models and stay at home neckbeards. If somebody WANTS to earn money to support themselves of their family, why would you block and not encourage that person? Should we ban teens from participating in sports or driving a vehicle? Because those could also result in injury or death.
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The first case of child abuse was reported to the humane society, animals literally had rights before children.
This guy is a trouble maker.
He is trying to harm kids
Which guy? The interviewee? He's explaining what has been going on, he isn't the one behind it nor is he advocating it.
Are you a bot? Seriously! Adults are having hell in getting some employers to treat them with dignity, now they want children to have to deal with those demon employers!! Seriously, are you a business looking to hire these kids?!?
What??
@@no-barknoonan1335 Put it back in the sand barky.
@@alphaomega8373 Lmao nani tf? Is that some kind of boomer speak?
How are these 14-19 year olds "helpless children" when it comes to deciding if they can take a job, but young adults with autonomy who shouldn't have to inform Mom and Dad if they want to have $€x, get abortions or even a $€x change operation? It's hypocritical.
There is no such things as "parent's rights". Parents do not get special rights, but parents do have responsibilities and obligations.
I am more interested in "children's rights" and expectations and standards for the adults responsible for them.
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I LOVE this guy’s calm, intelligent and articulate demeanor. And his message is spot on. Thank you so much.
FloriDUH! (I was born/raised here, so I can say that).
Relaxing slaver will be up soon... give an inch and they will take your life.
Give them your life, they'll take us all.
What the actual fuck uppery is happening in the USA. It's like going backwards...
-Concerned Canadian Neighbor
Thanks to reichwing billionaires. Coming for your country, too.
This is what sociopathic greedy uber rich men do!
Whoever started this and whoever is passing these laws in these states needs to go rot in hell!!!
Jacob is a great guest!! So clear and engaging, he knows his stuff and knows how to communicate it 🔥
Parental Rights to allow children to work!
This is what we are going to do with all those orphaned children they want to create! Build a workforce.
What's wrong with having a strong workforce? And who exactly is creating orphans? Do you not get that without a lot of workers that can be taxed, the social safety net (Social Security, Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies, etc.) is toast? A LARGE workforce supporting a few aged/ disabled works, a FEW workers supporting a ton of old/ disabled/ unemployed doesn't.
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 YOU seem very supportive of this issue to the point of responding negatively to MANY commenters here. What’s YOUR stake in this??? You never get to be a child when young? You want to employ them? Why do you want to take society backwards to the time of Industrial Britain where kids got testicular Cancer from cleaning chimneys! GRINCH!
So much for these states wanting to protect their children. There's a reason why there were restrictions on teenage employment.
Maybe Sarah Sanders kids should have to work along side these children!
To be honest. There is nothing wrong with teenager's working. There should be rules and regulations. During school day's. They can work part-time. In the summertime. They can work full-time. You can't let teenager's work full-time during school. They need their education. It should be balance. Adults don't want to work because of the pay. The minimum wage in these states is $7.50 an hour. Bring up the minimum wage for the adults. Instead of hiring undocumented teenager's. Both democratic and republicans need to fix this child labor law. Nobody isn't winning.
Here's the thing about these bills. They don't solve any problem. Conservatives are convinced that teenagers are an untapped resource of potential workers. Labor participation of minors has decreased dramatically over the past 40 years. Just because a teenager can work doesn't mean they will work. It sets up employers into thinking that they can fill these positions.
Child labor brings down the wage scale for adults. These laws are an attack on all working families.
He says cororations need to cut cots: let them start at their very boated top, their executives. Then they can scale back on dividends to shareholders.
Allowing children to work harder, not smarter. Letting education be abandoned. Just more chattle for the wealthy. Make America great again.
Iowa and Missouri are super Republican!
Of course. Why waste money on educating poor kids when you can import any number of PhD from India or Cina. The ONLY way USA will be competitive in the neoliberal world is if lower cost of labor. Child labor is obvious solution.
I really hope that was irony. If you are serious, you are a truly disgusting human being. Child labor is the solution? I really hope you are kidding, unless you are a very bad person.
I worked up to 16 hrs overnight and up to 40 hours a week while in high school and managed to graduate early. What I did, plenty of others can do. Safety, ID, and minimum wage need to be across the board, but it's not fair to deny job opportunity to the working poor. It creates dependency on the government. These same hypocritical politicians justify criminal activity, saying teens lack activities and economic opportunity.
yeah this seems legit and not at all some child labor advocate troll.....
@@oneofus6924 You don't even believe doing anything to help yourself is possible, do you? Whining and hoping the ultra rich will pay UBI to keep you as pets is your solution. Anyone who questions your narrative that "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is impossible" is a "troll". Anyone who does honest labor is "complicit" with the evil system, right?
Uphill...both ways! BOOTSTRAPS!
@@DennisMoore664 Because I worked hard, I had money saved for college. I guess you wouldn't believe I worked during school and graduated with no college debt, either? What's your story, anyway?
@@3namechangezalowdevry90day7 I've been fortunate enough to not have any stories of real importance. At least none that relate to the subject of this video. I've seen some things, been up and down, and there have been moments here and there, but mostly it's been is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror and/or exhilaration.
I also recognize the luck and privilege I have from happening to be born a straight, white male who grew up in one of the best countries in which to be a straight,white male. I would have a very different and likely darker story if any of those three qualities were not part of who I am. I'm not saying people can't overcome barriers, just that we shouldn't be starting from a point of judgement if someone doesn't measure up to our standards or achieve our accomplishments.
this scares me
Agreed.