President Trump has floated ideas about helping certain industries that rely on immigrant labor, but the White House has yet ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to former teen farm worker and immigrant rights advocate Maria Lopez Gonzalez about new bills that would weaken current child-labor laws. And now we turn to Maria Lopez ...

Rise of child labor stokes fight over worker laws. ... Jose Velasquez Castellano said he first worked on a farm when he was 8 years old. At age 13, ...

Republicans are rolling back child labor laws. ... Farm workers harvest curly mustard in a field in February 2021 in Ventura County, California. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the United States working in dangerous jobs in violation of US child labor laws.. There is more to this story. A ...

Teen workers are more likely to accept low pay and less likely to unionize or push for better working conditions, said Maki, of the Child Labor Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy network.

But while Congress has had many chances to bolster labor protections in the 18 versions of the farm bill it has passed since 1933, it has instead largely ignored the needs of the workers who plant ...

Since the news on Feb. 7 that Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will leave his Cabinet position, there has been significant buzz about who President Biden will name to succeed him. In the pile of ...

A panel of experts and advocates testified on child labor laws and requirements on farms before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Lawmakers were examining ways ...

Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past two years, ... Farm workers over 16 can work at dangerous heights or operate heavy machinery, ...

"You can't balance a perceived labor shortage on the backs of teen workers." Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past two years, according to a report ...

Congress should pass legislation to provide child farmworkers with the same protections as others, but the Labor Department does not need to wait for Congress.