The interests of children need to be central to policy and decision-making. A White House Office for Children and Youth would give children a seat at the table.
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The pandemic has forced an economic reset. Perhaps we will take the opportunity to create a world without child labor.
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When I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
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Roy would say, about the behavior of men who put money first, " He wouldn't pay a nickel to see an ant eat a bale of hay."
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Flights to the Northeast are filled with people of color fleeing this government - what the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policy looks like on the ground - or rather in the air.
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Two photographs - one hundred years apart. Child labor is still a reality in U.S. fields, due to a crucial loophole in the law.
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Ginning up the fears of his base, President Trump fantasizes about a caravan of asylum-seekers “invading” the country, a threat he is apparently prepared to meet by wasting the time and resources of active-duty military personnel. But who are these people really? Drug-dealers and murderers, or families fleeing gang violence?
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The Courts and Congress should hold Trump and his coterie accountable. Despite their protestations, this isn’t policy for the benefit of America’s security, this is criminal behavior that should not go unpunished.
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Why would a white person call the cops because a 12-year-old black boy is mowing the lawn in her neighborhood? It would be funny, if it weren’t so frightening. Is there something that could be done to stop the madness?
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The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled its intention to review and roll back key protections for children exposed to pesticides in American agriculture.
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EPA head Scott Pruitt has proposed rolling back protections aimed at guarding child farmworkers from pesticide poisoning. Here's why this is a truly terrible idea.
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Any infrastructure plan that ignores the needs of children is a failed plan.
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With the Presidential election in full-swing here are four things President Obama and the Congress can do to help children, now.
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It really is past time for the United States to join the rest of the world in ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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House Resolution 2764 needs to be moved out of committee and brought up for a vote to protect children working in the fields in these United States.
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