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rhett o rick

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Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:57 PM Nov 2013

"Child Labor in the USA" - Why wont the Pres Obama Admin do anything? [View all]

From TheNation.com: http://www.thenation.com/article/177152/child-labor-usa

The Labor Department seemed ready to address this problem during President Obama’s first term, proposing a variety of safety measures for young agricultural laborers—and an outright ban on children working on tobacco farms. But in 2012, after a furious and deceptive lobbying campaign by farm conglomerates, the Labor Department rescinded all of its proposed rules—at the request of the White House—and even vowed not to revisit the issue for the rest of Obama’s second term. Because of this reversal, which stunned public health advocates, at least four young workers have lost their lives, as Strauss documents here.


I wonder what the back-story is.
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