The Child Labor Crisis In America

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A series of investigative reports over the last year has revealed that underage children, most of them migrants from Central America, are working some of the most dangerous jobs in our country — from construction sites to slaughterhouses to factories — operating dangerous equipment. States like Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio are considering rollbacks on child labor protections, allowing minors, some as young as 14, to work longer hours and night shifts. Tonya Mosley spoke with New York Times investigative reporter Hannah Dreier, who has been reporting on the children, and Washington Post business reporter Jacob Bogage, who has been reporting on conservative campaign to weaken child labor laws in the states.

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1:16.3	We're thrilled that Tanya is now an official part of the Fresh Air family.
1:20.8	Let me tell you a little bit about her. Let's start with her resume.
1:24.1	As you may already know, Tanya served as a correspondent and host of Here and Now, the midday radio show co-produced by NPR and WBWR in Boston.
1:34.4	She served as a host and the Silicon Valley Bureau chief at KQED in San Francisco.
1:39.8	Before that, she was a TV correspondent for Al Jazeera America and a TV reporter in several cities.
1:46.5	She was awarded a John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford University, where she co-created a workshop for journalists on the impact of implicit bias on reporting.
1:56.9	She won a Morrow award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for her public radio series Black and Seattle and in Emmy in 2016 for her piece Beyond Ferguson.
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