Why states are rolling back child labor laws 

I wish we could, but they have us by the balls, no way it would work without damaging society massively (maybe if essential workers didn't strike, but everyone else did, it would work better, but idk)

-_- where I gotta sign up, and who’s coming together to stop this

@@nolyfe4814 iam Will probably be going on strike next year

Not just union workers: suffragettes were a huge voice in taking down child labor and supporting public schools. Girls and young women who worked with string and cloth were particularly taken advantage of. Going to school was a much more profitable use of their time, both personally and nationally.

If the union pays my bills, sure.

This.

That’s not how any of this works lol

@@RaccoonRecluse is a terrible idea

@@luisfilipe2023 no one should be allowed to pay taxes if they can't vote.

@@genericscout5408 that’s not how taxes or voting works darling

Pfft. You think this companies will have the necessary materials for kids to work on their facilities?

​@@cesargeney5268Completely agree. Safety regulations will be attacked from the head to the toes in red states. Give it 4 years before n@z1 repubs start refuting the Germ theory of disease and claim work regulations are woke.

no, that’s exactly the regulations they’re removing! having to offer respirators to your child labor is too costly, they’re young, they’ll probably manage just fine without any. by the time they get cancer it’s someone else’s problem 😇

Bold of you to assume there is any safety or ppe on the site

What tf do people think this repeal is? Its allowong 14 year olds to start working, which in these times, is a godsend, shits grtting expensive and you need to start as early as you can.

Every job requires you to give an id...

@@amanthedestroyer4852 Name a job

​@CCZ and they're already breaking the law via that because iirc you need several forms of identification if you're taking on an actual job.

Every job I've had has required a form of ID to show I'm legally able to work.

Work permits are through schools. If a kid is failing all their classes, they should probably prioritize that over working. That’s the idea, anyway. I think we can all agree that if you can’t keep your graves above a C average you’re not ready for a work environment.

Probably

"Rules for thee and not for me" -almost every politician

Yes their children’s will definitely not be working in any dangerous factories while their constituents are

@Turd Ferguson that’s the problem, for a lot of families that isn’t true. I know when I was in highschool I had the choice to work, but a lot of my peers would work 39 hour weeks at 16 so their family could afford to eat. A lot of people these days are poorer than anyone ever deserves to be. This law was created specifically so companies won’t have to pay adults fair wages, instead opting to pay children under the minimum wage doing the same labor. It’s evil.

@@christianmccauley7340 I worked 40 hour weeks when I was 16 .so I could save for a car and buy some of the stuff I wanted and to get experience my family is not in need and I do not give my money to my parents . 16 I plenty old enough to work part or full time I have now worked at the same place for 2 years now I have to say I have not done research on this but just want to say I have worked sense I was 16 and started at minimum wage and was fine with it I saved thousands of dollars up because I had no bills at all so I didt need more pay I am not at minimum wage anymore plus the fact I had no working experience if you got here no doubt you have realize how bad at grammar I am so good job getting here hope you understand this slight rant I understand where you are coming from at least partially and hope you understand where I’m coming from

I would've though birth rate increases with child labour, for more money and increased chance of children living into adulthood

Source?

​@@purp4168 There is such a thing as "too tired for sex" when you work 60+ hours a week, no matter what sex you are. Additionally, even if the women/girls become pregnant, dangerous working conditions and overwork also increase the likelihood of miscarriage, or children born too weak (due to the weakened mother) to survive long past birth. That's not even factoring in things likes being so impoverished that the mother nor her family look after a child, leading to increased "accidents"/back alley abortions, or outright abandoning the baby once it's born.

@@SkySong6161 I was meaning that, similar to what happened in the industrial revolution, poor families will have more children, as they will earn them more money, and the children would be less likely to reach adulthood, so to have children reach that, people would have more

@@purp4168 that just sounds like regressing back to a third-world country

Hey, he fell into a meat grinder, but at least he wasn’t ‘indoctrinated’

Oh hey,hes buried alive in the mines!but atleast hez not brainwashed

You realize we can address both issues at the same time, right? As for whether the government can do more than 1 thing at a time, I'm not so sure.

Hey, he broke his spine falling from a roof where he was putting on tiles, but at least he wasn't encouraged to trans by a woke psychologist or librarian

If you are ‚traumatized‘ by misgendering….

​@@7eddiii ok.... But it's a child. Like you really want a child working with carosive chemicals

​@@JesusChrist-sm4bm yes, let them get cancer

​@@7eddiii except if a kid is in a job they probably aren't going to get a proper education, and an uneducated kid will never make as much money as an educated one. Not to mention uneducated people are much more likely to vote republican, they do much better with high school dropouts and people with university or college degrees are more likely to vote blue.

​@@7eddiii the reason they are doing this is because of the labor shortage and rise of unions demanding fair and livable pay. They want to keep labor cheap and not keep the wages rising at the same rate as inflation like they are supposed to. So rather than do the responsible thing and give them what they are asking for, they would rather bring back child labor. Republicans 🙄

Cheap labor you mean like the cheap labor coming across the open border to the south?

Did homeless people line up for jobs when there was an actual minimal skill labour shortage? During the labour shortage, how many panhandlers and homeless people, drug users, quit their addiction, and take whatever jobs they could get instead of begging? Considering the labour shortage didn't end, I can bet you not many.

@@stansman5461so you want a bunch of homeless people to go to work, earn an income that isn’t enough to get a place, and then live on the streets… gotcha

@@Charlie_Loves it's called a start. Better than putting them in homeless shelters and giving them nothing but handouts with paying nothing back to society.

@@stansman5461 wdym a start? Jobs should come with live able wages. What difference does it make if the homeless person is still fucking homeless? Holy shit

@@stansman5461 oh so you want them to slave away their lives to receive peanuts while rich guys get richer. I get it. Judge to homeless person but ignore the billionaires avoiding paying their fair share. Tough guy you are.

It was to stop murdering children. the U.S. population is barely increasing. The LGBT and Abortion Movements are just population control pushed by our corrupt government officials that are paid off by forign governments.

How in the name of Christ does Roe v Wade have ANYTHING to do with this

@@SneakySnake133 absolutely nothing, just wants to play victim or something.

To answer your question, you can extend the logic thus: if you force birth for every pregnancy, you are creating a workforce a mere 12-14 years later...

As an ex foster kid who's met thousands of other ex foster kids while homeless. Most of us were abused and trafficked for illegal labor in the first place. Or used as an income source if we are disabled because parents get paid more for troubled kids. If child labor was legal on this level I too would have been forced to work till death or dismemberment.

When i was 13, i was working for a landscaping company, making 16/hr, so i could buy my own car...

“….unless they’re in high school…”

​@@dreamwolf7302 where tf can you drive a car at 13

​@@seyamrahman1002 working for 16 bucks a hour and 20 hour work week for 3 years is 46k.

@@seyamrahman1002 ...you know that cars are expensive right? And that to get a decent one, it can take years to save up for a cash purchase? Its called planning ahead, try it some time, its great to set a goal, and accomplish that goal. When i was 10, i decided i wanted to get an old car and fix it up with my grandfather. So i started by dog sitting, mowing lawns, small things a 10 year old could accomplish. I saved up, sometimes spent a bit of my money if i exceeded my monthly goal. And when i was 16, and got my license, i was able to buy a 1974 Pontiac Ventura, 4 door, 3 speed on the floor, 250 straight 6 engine. I was able to afford repair and restoration, without having to borrow money from my already struggling parents. Not all of us grew up with the privilege of parents who could just give us what we wanted because they had extra cash sitting around somewhere.

That's the idea

keep wages low so people cant afford to learn that they are being exploited

That's their goal and it's disgusting

So what if it leads to sweat shops? It’s still better than killing themself after being chemically castrated by lupron, and it gives them work experience so they can get better jobs later on.

Probably more sweat farms than anything else

It’s insane what people are trying to reinstate these days. We established that hazardous child labor was bad over a hundred years ago!

@@litewavegames3967 Are you typing this on an iphone by chance?

@@eondrache7786 ...is your argument that China does it, so we should do it?

But their little hands can reach in so many places mine cant!

​@@Diviance They probably also will agree we should make reeducation camps for religious minorities then lol. Imagine "China does a thing" being an argument 💀

“Stop performing bottom surgery on kids you groomers! Oh it’s an intersex baby? Yeah you can absolutely do bottom surgery on that, in fact the majority of anti trans laws about gender reassignment surgery include exceptions for intersex babies. Please keep quiet about them tho, the mere existence of intersex people goes against a lot of our transphobic rhetoric”

I wish I was able to get a job at a younger age I had 3 hot meals and a place to sleep that was it I didn't get nice things up until I got my first job at 18 I wore 3 generation old hand me down cloths. if I wanted something I would have to figure out how to make money to get it. I was locked out of any way of making any real money.

​@@happyjohn354 okay

​@@happyjohn354 no you weren't LMAO. Even in states Like NJ 14 year Olds can work outside school hours. The law didn't stop you

@@Joesolo13 No but they were so restrictive no business would take the risk. The only businesses that would were little mom and pop stores but most of those in my area got shut down a long time ago. Fun fact many business cant because their business insurance would refuse to cover it if something did happen. Its a veritable minefield of fines.

Provide the bills.

There needs to be regulations on corporation so they can artificially inflated the economy. And a wage pay that is livable and adjusts with world inflation. No one under the age of 18 should be forced to work to survive. Period.

Paper rounds and pamphlet delivery is a job an 11 year old can do, I did

​@@Kaelioscope92 not a dangerous job

@@Kaelioscope92 yeah and look how lame you turned out.

If it's good enough for the Chinese child making your iphone it's good enough for little Jimmy

​@@SikenServent so now we wanna be like China?

I mean by your logic young people shouldn’t be taxed either. Young people are generally more liberal because they’re also generally less educated

​@@SneakySnake133 college educated people are much more liberal than non-college educated people. This is a known fact, homie

@@Lycaon1765 correct. College educated does not mean educated in politics, and definitely does not mean smart. But yeah, I should’ve clarified

​@@SneakySnake133 Ironic given that the more education you receive the more likely you are to be for human rights.

​@@SneakySnake133 No, they are more educated on societal and sexual matters. The Internet also allows young people (most common Internet users are 25 and younger) to be educated on other peoples opinions on politics and what is actually happening in local and national politics

In around 43 states it's also legal for your parents to force you into a marriage but it's illegal in all 50 states for someone under 18 to file a divorce, even with parents permission.

There isnt little labour, they are refusing to up wages and people have finally realised that they arent being adequately paid so they just don’t work and then these people complain saying ‘damn millenials don’t work’

chaotic evil i see

they love animal crossing, they just can't wait to be paying off debt

lmao

When I was working (started at 14) I got all my money and I could spend it. Not all people are as controlling as the left think they are. Though it makes me wonder if the left is simply projecting

100% they'll do that BS

@@I_Quarter_your parents are nice. Not all parents are

@mobcrusher99 I know and things need to be worked on to improve the home life of people (such as stable 2 parent homes because kids coming out of those homes are much better off so after 2 generations of all homes (or most at least) the world would be a hell of a lot better off) but in the meantime all we can do is give kids the opportunity to work and let them know before they start working what it would look like if they were being exploited either by the company or by their parents. But removing that choice or making it practically impossible to get a job shouldn't be the solution

Remember: Whenever Republicans crow about the "good old days" this is what they mean, the absolute worst parts of the past

@@DaHuntsman1to them it’s the best parts

Yeah, that's so terrible that we would want to have more jobs available to Americans instead out outsourcing our labor to other countries.

​@@randomusername5242 you do realize that the world isn't zero sum, right? Jobs create more jobs in and of themselves.

@@Lycaon1765 No, they really don't.

Honestly, I would like to make a few of these… politics is getting out of control, no matter what side your on. Just wish they would stop 0.1% from owning 90% of the market.

@@ChewedBubbleGun but I love Pepsi Doritos quakers etc I’m glad the 0.1 percent is making all this bussing food

It’s bot as easy as the video is “explaining”. A lot of info has been left out.

@@JeszczeMonke tee can still change it We can literally stopped change and move anything if that’s what we all want and work towards to change We are the country Learn more skill and create a stack of card so we can be self sufficient and create and economy within four communities

​@@CasualReactionGuy and let you overthrow the government and established a fascist theocracy? No.

Your parents wanted one to two children and pensions so I'm afraid your child will have to be a slave.

The satire is great but now consider if we actually took steps to reclaim our independence,😅🤷🏽‍♂️

So true. Immigrants, especially undocumented ones, hold up the entire manual labor economy. Without them, the uneducated Americans would be forced out of their cushy jobs and into manual labor. Since studies show a correlation between lack or critical thinking and xenophobia, that means the same idiots that are mad about undocumented immigrants in the first place.

i think it’s more along the lines of allowing 16 - 17 year olds the ability to work more than 24 hours per week, to prepare for college and or help pay bills for their low income families

@@Ozblivion instead of raising the minimum wage

@@johnsatan117 do you realize that wouldn’t just make more money magically appear right it would just make the business forced to lay people off and raise the prices on their products and it still wouldn’t help the 16-17 year olds because they can only work 24 out of the 168 of the week so they’d get laid off especially hard

@@Ozblivion if your business can’t even pay a living wage, and it should go out of business.

Billion dollar corporations can't afford a 1 dollar raise? Yeah sure

Iowa legislature is currently debating a bull to allow 15 year olds on assembly lines

@@Adamfandango ya no that’s too much.

Isn't there one state that pushes for 12 or 14 year olds to be allowed to work all night on farms? Sorry but driving tractor at 14 all night ain't the independence kids need xd

@@Scuba_Tim88 make sure you’re tellling your representatives that

@@Adamfandango at this moment I haven’t heard anything like that happening in NC. But I’ll keep my ears open about it

You know 14 year old kindergarteners?

@@SneakySnake133 of course i do this is america

@@atomtix bro where do you live

@@SneakySnake133 USA

@@atomtix I don’t think you do because 14 yo kindergarteners don’t exist

The problem is, for a lot of families they don’t have a choice. I know when I was in highschool I had the opportunity to work, but a lot of my peers would work 39 hour weeks at 16 just so their family could afford to eat. A lot of people these days are poorer than anyone ever deserves to be. This law was created specifically so companies won’t have to pay adults fair wages, instead opting to pay children under the minimum wage doing the same labor. It’s evil.

That's basically how it is already, down to 14 in many states. Kids 13 and under shouldn't work at all. Odd jobs like mowing lawns etc, fine, not factory work

It's only idealistic because republicans are in charge in many of these states

what about the other way around, with kids who might be forced to work & exploited by their abusive families? the same things that might help might also hinder

​@daniels2636 that is why you can report things to your workplace 😊

The line is 16, allowing highschool kids to work. But they should have higher protections - nothing more than 20 hours, no dangerous jobs, higher than minimum wage to start their financial journey, and severe punishments to companies who violate these rules. But no one but unions can do that

@@sandshark2 I mean the I started doing online jobs by myself at that age because I knew ordinary companies wouldn't hire me because I was a kid. That is the flip side of this from experince and why we need to be just as aware of how standardization has its own effects. I agree though on most of what you said and that they should have higher protections, but if anything we should be curate it so that teh child has more choice rather than gets pushed into a scenrio that screws them over too and makes this worse. Afterall we dont want a child trying to get multiple different jobs to evade these kinds of laws

@@runenorderhaug7646 ofc, gotta curate it to provide every protection and freedom to the child, unless/until we fix the system itself which requires children to start their financial journey before they are granted rights of an individual

What type of job do you have?

The side of this wholething people don't want to see...that maybe kids should be able to work if they want to. There needs to be balance

This applies to like factory work though you can get a job at a movie theater anyways

@@Bowl_of_soup yeah not in my state, gotta be 14 to do pretty much anything

@@dutch3901 yeah it’s like that everywhere that’s a federal law to prevent child labor like in the 20s? Why would an 11 year old need a job or something

@@Bowl_of_soup that's fair, i guess it is just the desire to make money. i guess the reason it doesnt make sense to me is because i feel i'd be safe doing a small part time job, mopping in a walmart or something.

you can try looking at migrant workers, they literally sell them amongst farmers no really i'm not even shitting you they buy and sell migrant workers like slaves

Kids here even back in the 80s did the same now they might get a job by their mid 20s.

@@chrisrawr6177 Maybe we as a country has tried to steer away from the American cycle work, buy, work, buy, die. They are kids let them have fun and be kids. If only we didn’t have republicans we might be able to progress to the modern age

Not quite what they mean. Lots of people here do/did that. But here we are talking about actually dangerous conditions, like sweatshops and factories from this industrial eras

@@7eddiii Then why did they pass a bill, which was lobbied for and supported by think tanks funded by such dangerous industries, letting kids work in assembly lines and meat packing plants?

kids delivering the local paper isn't the same as sending kids to a meat packing plant

No thats not why they want to pass these laws

The problem is, for a lot of families they don’t have a choice. I know when I was in highschool I had the opportunity to work, but a lot of my peers would work 39 hour weeks at 16 just so their family could afford to eat. A lot of people these days are poorer than anyone ever deserves to be. This law was created specifically so companies won’t have to pay adults fair wages, instead opting to pay children under the minimum wage doing the same labor. It’s evil.

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Yes, having children work in meat packing plants, factories, and the mines is such a good idea.

@@DaHuntsman1what mines ? Y’all be making shit up . I literally started working at 14 at ice cream factory and literally loved it cause you feel like you doing something 😂😂. And y’all act like they gonna have to cut shit and picks things up and all this shit . Are y’all blue collard or not ? Because everywhere I worked at usually you got the granny’s doing easy shit like packing or doing paper work . And we got the dudes pulling pallets . And even in construction when dudes take their kids they not up there putting plywood on the second story 😂they running around grabbing things from the car . Y’all being so unrealistic for no reason 😂😂. Even in fast food the young’s will be taking orders , cleaning and putting bags together…. You got all the OGs doing the real work .

The 2nd amendment does give people the right to form well regulated militias. I’ve heard Ron DeSantis loves the 2nd amendment!

@@yepimhere5413 there is another thing somewhere,I don't remember which one that says we can overthrow and reinstate a new government.

The main issue is the legality of children being employable, not their documentation status. Not much happens to those who employ undocumented folks. Maybe some fines? This, however, will target increasingly desperate undocumented migrant children because now the same laws that affect adult undocumented people will now affect those children as well that shouldn't even be working in the first place.

@@joetheschmoe2 Those laws against hiring undocumented workers already affect ALL undocumented workers, whether they are here adults or children. If the business is hiring undocumented workers, they aren”t going to care about child labor laws. Once again, this primarily affect those children who are legally here because making labor laws less restrictive only affects businesses who are already doing things legally.

@@drmadjdsadjadi what? Making child labor legal will justify undocumented children working if they are now being treated as adults in the workplace.

Same.

No

*hires your mom* *Goes bankrupt*

Nahhh your a troll

That’s just the thing tho, a lot of these bills are rolling back protections for kids who will be exploited and forced into unsafe working conditions. Undocumented migrant children already have next to no protections and its gonna get worse by orders of magnitude. Especially since this will essentially legitimise the child trafficking already going on

Yea me to. I've been working voluntarily since I was I think 14 or 15, it helped me a lot when I was finding a job after I graduated school

14 is a bit young, but 15 and above are fine, its that these laws will mean younger and younger people are working

it's a sign of a recession if employers are desperate enough to get kids into their workforce then something is very wrong and also allowing this behavior to fester is what got 8 year olds working in factories for pennies.

@@veirvena2062 I don't see what the issue is with 16-year-olds being able to wait tables at a place that serves alcohol or teens getting into job programs. If I would have been able to wait tables at the restaurant in my town that served alcohol when I was 16, I wouldn't have been forced to have 3 jobs while going to high school. This is for the most part a good thing.