Child labor is child abuse, and those who participate in it should be held strictly accountable. The gutting of our child labor laws is a strategized predatory exploitation of unaccompanied minors. There should be more than civil penalties for this; there should be criminal ones. Financial penalty for harming a child would be seen by some as simply the cost of doing business.
More Perfect Union
 @MorePerfectUS
27 Oct 2023
With child labor violations rising dramatically, four Democratic Senators have introduced a bill to: - Increase the civil penalty from $11,000 to $151,380 - Increase the criminal fine from $10,000 to $750,000 - Increase the minimum child labor penalty to $75,000 And more.

Oct 27, 2023 · 6:18 PM UTC

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How does this woman not have more support
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My mother and her siblings worked when they were children. It wasn’t abuse. With a widow raising eight children, it was how the family ate.
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Marianne, do you support expanding permitting for mining in the United States so that we can stop relying on illegal child labor in Africa, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party? chrissmith.house.gov/news/do…

Smith hearing exposes China’s exploitation of children in Africa to fuel its own economic and...

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Will you state that you will end the government's protection of our 1,000+ cults that are empowered by the law to be fueled by child labor? Millions of people suffer those cults. The government has shielded them from justice for decades. SAY YOU WILL UNCONDITIONALLY STOP IT.