Efforts to Legalize Child Labor are the Next Logical Step After Corporate Education Reform
Standardized testing.
Privatizing public schools.
Defunding poor students.
What’s next?
Republicans across the United States have an answer – legalizing child labor.
Since 1938 with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration restricted children younger than 14 from being employed, and put strict rules in place on when those younger than 18 may be employed, for how many hours and in what fields.
Today Republicans across the country seem poised to repeal those protections.
In Wisconsin, Republicans want to allow 14-year-olds to work in bars and restaurants serving alcohol. These kids aren’t legally allowed to drink the beverages they’re pouring but I’m sure that won’t cause any problems. Nooooo!
In Ohio, the GOP majority legislature is trying to allow kids ages 14 and 15 to work until 9 p.m. during the school year with their parents’ permission. Those teens better make sure…
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News That Will Drive You To Drink
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This is going to drive Bootsie crazy: Hair Füror just undercut the majickal conjuring word, WOKE, and we should note that the Stable Jenious uses “woke” too/also, but now he’s weaponizing it against
The Red Hat Cultists have a new reason to turn on Cracker Orban: Woke.
The Short, Sad Life of Baby Milo: Born to Die
The Washington Post tells the story of Baby Milo. His mother learned midway through her pregnancy that the fetus had a rare fatal condition. It would die within hours or days of its birth. She wanted to get an abortion but Florida abortion law made it impossible. The unborn baby had a heartbeat. No doctor would break the law by performing an abortion despite the fatal diagnosis. She had to carry the baby for three months. Baby Milo was born, then died in 99 hours. That must have made legislators happy to know the baby was born, despite the toll on its mother and father.
Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3. The unusual complications in his mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law.
Deborah Dorbert discovered she was pregnant in August. Her early appointments suggested the baby was…
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Politicians Are Poody Heads 