Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child Labor Protections
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Buried among the 922 pages of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, the far right blueprint for the next Republican president, is a proposal to make a major change to federal child labor law. Since the 1930s, the federal government has banned children under 18 from working in occupations deemed “particularly hazardous” for youth. The Labor Department identifies specific off-limits roles…