Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Photo taken in Manchester, NH, 1909, by Lewis Hine, courtesy Library of Congress.
Children living in unrelenting poverty forced to labor for our sneakers or rugs or jeans is criminal.
ReplyDeleteOr, to make America's children do janitorial work in the schools, as was proposed by a former candidate, will lead us backwards in the fight against child labor.
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