Child Labor Laws are One of the GOP’s Latest Targets.
Of course they are.
If I had one word to describe the GOP, exhausting would certainly be up there. Calculating, dangerous, and craven would all be obvious choices as well, but there really is something about the right wing’s model that is absolutely designed to simply wear us down. It’s the relentless nature of the way they operate. They’re constantly coming from multiple angles giving us a number of things to worry about, starting a wide variety of ridiculous conversations that we can’t even begin to keep up with, and they simply do not stop. There’s always another target on their list, and it’s almost impossible to keep track of them all.
Well, we’ve now got something else to add to the list and of course, that would be child labor laws.
VOX reporter Ellen Ioanes writes:
“Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders approved a bill on Tuesday eliminating a requirement for children under 16 to obtain state documentation in order to work. The new Arkansas law is just one of a number of state bills loosening child labor restrictions, despite evidence that young children are already engaged in dangerous and exploitative labor throughout the country…”
Keep in mind that this is the party that has decided it’s going to paint itself as the protector of…
