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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Arkansas governor signs bill rolling back child labor protections
Washington
CNN
Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill into law this week that rolls back a number of child labor protections across the state, including a measure that had required employers to obtain work certificates for children under the age of 16.
The Governor believes protecting kids is most important, but this permit was an arbitrary burden on parents to get permission from the government for their child to get a job, Sanders spokesperson Alexa Henning said in a statement. All child labor laws that actually protect children still apply and we expect businesses to comply just as they are required to do now.
Previously, minors under the age of 16 needed to verify their age and get the written consent of a parent or guardian before a work certificate could be issued by the states Division of Labor. But H.B. 1410, known as the Youth Hiring Act of 2023, which passed the Arkansas state legislature earlier this month, no longer requires youth under the age of 16 to have that work certificate as a condition of their employment.
]The bills passage comes after the Biden administration announced last month plans to crackdown on labor exploitation of migrant children across the country, the New York Times reported, following an investigation conducted by the publication.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-child-labor/index.html
Irish_Dem
(45,660 posts)Anti science, anti medicine, anti education.
No protections for the people.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ananda
(28,783 posts)Unfuckingbelievable.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)yeah, sure you do
spanone
(135,637 posts)They don't give a single shit about migrant children
bluestarone
(16,723 posts)I cannot believe that kids are not protected FEDERALLY? WTF?
usonian
(9,429 posts)But looking forward to when the Kanamits take the Orange Julius away.
pwb
(11,205 posts)or trash States fit better. Fuck trying to raise them up.
OMGWTF
(3,901 posts)aggiesal
(8,864 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)"War of Northern Aggression" and enabled "the South will rise again" bullshit which has festered and is causing much of it. If they want to go down that route again, so be it. I think the die may be cast already, which is a huge mistake for seditonists and traitors everywhere.
yonder
(9,631 posts)...will be considered a burden on parents too.
We know what you're up to there, guv.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)I have this book about children labor in the early part of the 20th century with pictures put out by scholastic books. The pictures are horrendous.
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)That sort of work is for THOSE children. Sarah Huckster probably thinks that school would be a waste of resources for THEM.
ShazzieB
(15,958 posts)This kind of dumbfuckery is no more or less than I would expect of SHS.
Doesn't make it okay, but it's certainly not shocking coming from her.
hadEnuf
(2,150 posts)I'm sure that business will take care of their kids for them instead.
How nice of that fucking cow Sanders.
malaise
(267,845 posts)She's a horrible deplorable woman
malaise
(267,845 posts)She's a horrible deplorable woman
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)Huckabee had to move quickly before Biden's moves would hurt her donors.
3Hotdogs
(12,210 posts)To tend the mules.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)You aren't going to see middle class White teenagers working in meat packing or other dangerous jobs. This is about exploiting exploitable labor so that Corporations and other unethical business owners can maintain their profits.
We need to open our eyes rather than be shocked about "the new low" that Conservatives have "sunk too". They never went anywhere. They have done anything that was allowable or that they could get away with since Child Labor Laws were first enacted. They have used everything in their power to maintain the system as close to optimal for them. Now, as the nation actually continues to progress, we are seeing a surge in Conservatives exploiting any power they get to entrench the most regressive policies. I think that many of them see the writing on the wall and they want to dig in deep, like Ticks so that it is really difficult to get them out of power.
The biggest concern is that with right wing media, the people who keep voting them into office, are basically mesmerized and are not hearing real information about the world. They seem to enjoy the cruelty, until they feel it themselves, but then right wing media simply blames their pain on immigrants, the "woke mob", socialism, or whatever other boogeyman they can use to scare people.
Hassler
(3,326 posts)By Chump's former spokes-liar. No lies so effortlessly as a preacher politician's daughter.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Hassler
(3,326 posts)By Chump's former spokes-liar. No one lies so effortlessly as a preacher politician's daughter.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)said every Christofascist out there at one time or another.
I'd like to see her put in a real day's hard work. Maybe fast food. Let he feel how her back and feet feel after a week of having to hustle at a real job. Then we'll have a talk about doing that to kids.
That will never happen, of course, so I hope she does reap the whirlwind from mothers who would prefer to see their children grow up as something besides underpaid workers doing dangerous jobs in Arkansas packing plants.
That's what this is about, you know. Children have always worked cheap.
slightlv
(2,637 posts)to actually kick them out of the U.S.? That way they don't have to secede? They can say it wasn't their fault? (LOL) They just enact such brutal and self-serving, fascist laws that we end us saying "enough is enough" and kick them the frack out. But to where? I mean, at some point, something DOES have to give. We either DO have a civil war, or we divide this country up and kick them to their own little fascist piece of it, or something. Just voting doesn't seem to be enough, because they never accept the results. What is the end game? I'm at a loss and beginning to feel a hell of a lot of despair here.
dlk
(11,439 posts)Republicans have lost their humanity and are behaving like third world barbarians with their backlash.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)Spoiler alert: IT'S A COOKBOOK
spanone
(135,637 posts)I was eleven years old....scared me. Also referenced up thread (1962)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
housecat
(3,121 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)This is immoral and unethical and shows just that there is nowhere the Republican Party won't go.
Liberal In Texas
(13,457 posts)I've seen repubs say this in other stories. They're just kids, so they don't deserve full pay.
I'll bet they can pick crops better than adults too!