Child labor is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is ...

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...

Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

Despite global gains on combatting child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing economies.

Lisa Zimmermann, Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF Madagascar, said 47% of 5- to 17-year-olds there are affected by child labor — much higher than in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

WASHINGTON — Despite rising child labor violations and new Senate demands to investigate the nation’s largest meat processor, the U.S. Department of Labor remains silent on whether it has the ...

June 12 is World Day Against Child Labor, observed by the International Labor Organization. This chart shows the share of children aged 5-17 in child labor in 2024, by economic sector and age (in %).

Last year, Florida loosened restrictions on child labor by dropping a 30-hour-per-week limit on work by 16- and 17-year-olds who are home-schooled or have signed permission from a parent or school ...

The Labor Department is canceling $500 million allocated to programs that combat child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and abusive practices in more than 40 countries.

Former state Rep. Randy Lyness, who sponsored the 2020 bill, explained the motivation: “Child labor gives it a bad connotation to start with," he said at the time.