Friday, March 24, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: GOP fights crime and inflation by rolling back child labor laws

 
Top headline:   NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  Aaron Ruper, 3/24/2023

From Aaron Ruper:
In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders just signed a bill that will allow children as young as 14 to work without getting a work permit from the state. Before this, anyone under 16 had to apply for a work permit with the state’s Division of Labor. Getting rid of that requirement “restore[s] decision-making to parents concerning their children” and “streamline[s] this hiring process for children under 16,” according to the bill’s text. 
Applying for the work permit wasn’t exactly onerous on the parents or the state. It’s a one-page form that took a few days to process. However, the requirement meant the state at least was aware of how many children ages 14-15 were working and where they were working, and a parent had to sign the form. Now, all that is gone.
 

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