The Biden administration just announced plans to crack down on more than 4,400 new cases of child labor in the US since October

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Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.

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A growing number of US states are working to loosen child labor laws so your next bartender could be an underage teenager

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There are seven states that have enacted bills that lower the legal age to serve alcohol.

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A 16-year-old boy died while working in a Mississippi poultry plant. An unscrupulous hiring agency may be to blame, a workplace expert says.

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Duvan Tomas Perez, 16, died on July 14.

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2 Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be allowed to serve alcohol in restaurants

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Patrons gather at Pop's Pub to watch the Green Bay Packers football game on November 6, 2022 in Muskego, Wisconsin.

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A Comfort Inn hotel in Tennessee employed 2 children under the age of 12, the labor department says

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The White House is cracking down on companies illegally using migrant children to fill the labor shortage as 15-year-olds pack Cheerios and 13-year-olds change your hotel sheets

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A Honduran child sits on his mother's lap aboard a bus leaving the Metropolitan Center of San Pedro Sula, 300 kms north of Tegucigalpa, travelling towards the Guatemala border on April 9, 2019.

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McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania broke child labor laws, with kids under 16 operating deep fryers, Labor Department says

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McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania employed more than 150 children in violation of federal law, according to the US Department of Labor.

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Sanitation company pays $1.5 million penalty for hiring children for 'hazardous' factory work like cleaning beef bone saws, officials say

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A company was fined for employing dozens of underage children.

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Instead of paying adults more, some states might let companies hire kids as young as 14 to fill the labor shortage

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Boys folding boxes for Rowntrees Nux Chocolates in the packing department, Rowntree factory, York. Yorkshire, 1940. (Photo by Borthwick Institute/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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