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The Unbelievable Loophole In U.S. Child Labor Law

Kids helping out on the family farm? Totally fine. Kids being forced to miss school to work 12-hour shifts while facing exposure to extreme heat and pesticide poisoning? Not so much.

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Mansur Gidfar

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