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Search results for "child labor laws" ...
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The Blueberry Children
This investigation reveals that child labor is still a large issue in the United States. They found children “as young as 5 years old” in the fields picking fruits and vegetables. The child labor laws are rarely enforced, which is why nothing was being done to stop this practice. Further, many of these children were picking blueberries, which were some of the largest blueberry fields and were supplying national grocery store chains.
Tags: agriculture; operations; federal; human rights; lawmakers; regulators; kids; supermarkets; farmers
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Blue Bin Kids
KOB looked at children "working alone and late at night on Albuquerque streets and at gas stations." The children said they were part of a group called "'South West Pride,' a so-called after school program that allows kids to make money." However, New Mexico Labor Department had never licensed the group, and the group broke laws by having children work so late and alone.
Tags: child labor exploitation; New Mexico; South West Pride; labor; gas station
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Made in the USA
A three-month investigation by U.S. News & World Report found that as many as half of all women's garments made in America are produced in whole or in part by factories paying less than minimum wage, flout federal safety laws and require workers to spend 60 hours or more at their sewing machines per week.
Tags: Immigrants; sweatshops; garment workers; federal labor laws; child labor; U.S. Labor Department; contractor; apparel industry
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Subscription to Trouble
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigated the widespread abuse of young laborers working in America's door-to-door magazine sales trade. This trade relies "on the sweat of traveling crews of young" sales agents. Reporters found that these youths or young adults work in "dangerous sweatshop conditions," have a culture of lawbreaking and routinely deceive customers.
Tags: National Field Selling Association; publishers; working conditions; reckless driving; auto deaths; crime; sexual assault; Publishers Clearing Group Subscriptions Plus; Thomas Mack Hall; child labor laws
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IRE Feed 4 "Investigate This"
A compilation of 17 stories, including: 1.) "Deadly Detectors" WFXT, Boston, tested smoke detectors against the clock. 2.) "Burning Secret" WSMV, Nashville, State troopers were temporarily blinded and burned with pepper spray to feel it's effects, but without knowing the deadly and unhealthy hazards of the spray. 3.) "Take the Money and Run" News 12 Long Island, Election candidates betting campaign money. 4.) "Steroids For Sale" KPRC, Houston, Steroids illegally prescribed and Houston Police as customers. 5.) "Behind the Badge" WTHR, Indianapolis, Convicted criminal Police Officers. 6.) "Daycare Criminal Checks" KTVK, Dallas 7.) "Candy man" KOMO, Seattle, Teacher uses minors for door-to-door candy sales, usually in violation of child labor laws. 8.) "Illegal School Vans" WEWS, Cleveland, Schools transporting children in unsafe and illegal vans instead of buses. 9.) "High Crimes, High School" WITI, Milwaukee 10.) "Life After Death Row" WRAL, Raleigh 11.) "Foul Air" WWOR, New York, Carbon monoxide poisoning in indoor ice rinks. 12.) "Hard Bounces" KTVK, Dallas, "Banks that practice check ordering, or cashing larger checks first, equaling more profits for banks and more fines for customers. 13.) "Investigating the IRS" KTVK, Dallas 14.) "Fake Degrees" WFXT, Boston, Fake universities giving fake degrees. 15.) "Who is Mr. Wright?" KOMO, Seattle, An illegit doctor with fake credentials. 16.) "Medical Secrets" News 12 Long Island, A woman with terminal breast cancer, a doctor who failed to diagnose it, and a hospital that protected the doctors and punished the whistle blowers 17.) "Military Secrets" WRAL, Raleigh, Military doctors without medical licenses.
Tags: TAPE; WFXT; WSMV; KPRC; WTHR; KTVK; KOMO; WEWS; WITI; WRAL; WWOR; News 12 Long Island
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Candy Kids
KTVU's investigation of how child labor laws are violated when "Candy Kids" are used to sell candy. The authors found that many of these children, some as young as eight years old, are part of a loose nationwide network that all too often places them in illegal and unsafe conditions.
Tags: TAPE; Child labor laws
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The Candyman
Across the Washington State, kids are going door to door selling candy and cookies, and consumers buy thinking the money is going to worthwhile causes and groups. In reality it's going to adults, who are using the kids in violation of child labor laws, and as the investigation found placing kids at serious risk. Reporters uncovered cases of unsupervised kids being left in communities far from home, being held up at gunpoint, sexually molested, and even killed.
Tags: TAPE
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Children of the Harvest
Through the story of the Flores family, Dateline NBC's story "Children of the Harvest" explores the causes of a complex social problem: Why, sixty years after the passage of landmark child-labor legislation, are children still harvesting the food we eat? Rather than create villains and scapegoats, the story investigates the attitudes and actions of the child, the father, the farmer, the food processor and the government officials responsible for enforcing child labor laws.
Tags: TAPE; child-labor laws; migrant workers
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Danger: Underage Teen Workers Face Risks on the Job, but does the Government Do Enough to Protect Them?
Working children are at risk, but the federal government does little to find or punish those employers who break child labor laws. USA Today found that the government routinely dismisses thousands of dollars in fines, even when a working child dies.
Tags: Children; Employer; Safety hazard
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Toy Story: Part I and II
Dateline "illustrates that at the heart of the hand wringing over child labor, hazardous working conditions and exploited laborers is a serious question of corporate ethics. By targeting the strictest consumer-regulated industry in retail, the toy industry, Dateline makes the point that multinational manufacturers such as Disney and Mattel (whose buyers visit the factories on a regular basis to (ensure) quality control) know that abuses exist. ... Dateline posed as BANDIT TOYS, and went undercover into toy factories and textile mills in Indonesia and China and found a host of violations of (Toy Manufacturers Association)'s code of conduct and more importantly, local law."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT Labor; child labor; Asia; Mattel retail imports human rights business practices