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Posts Tagged ‘Child Labor’

March 8th, 2023 - 4:12 pm § in Business, Politics, Republicans

Arkansas relaxes child labor laws

Kids under 16 no longer need work permits in Arkansas. The new GOP governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (photo, left), a hardcore cheap-labor conservative, signed a bill this week doing away with requiring parental permission for minor children to work. The bill also weakens other child labor protection[...]

February 28th, 2015 - 11:01 pm § in Politics

Book Review: Praising sweatshops

Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, by Benjamin Powell (Cambridge University Press, 2014) Okay, I haven’t read it, I’ve only read the review in Barrons magazine, so this is really a review of a review. Benjamin Powell is a very conservative (actually libertarian) academic [...]