Child labor is absolutely coming back in Republican led states. https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most-dangerous-rollbacks-of-child-labor

Child labor is absolutely coming back in Republican led states. https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most-dangerous-rollbacks-of-child-labor-laws-in-the-country-14-states-have-now-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk/ https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most... > Last Friday, this concerted attack on child labor safeguards further expanded. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an expansive bill enacting numerous changes to the state’s child labor laws, including: > allowing employers to hire teens as young as 14 for previously prohibited hazardous jobs in industrial laundries or as young as 15 in light assembly work; > allowing state agencies to waive restrictions on hazardous work for 16–17-year-olds in a long list of dangerous occupations, including demolition, roofing, excavation, and power-driven machine operation; > extending hours to allow teens as young as 14 to work six-hour nightly shifts during the school year; > allowing restaurants to have teens as young as 16 serve alcohol; and > limiting state agencies’ ability to impose penalties for future employer violations.