Green tobacco sickness and teenage farmhands

“(P)ublic health experts say hundreds of children under 16…continue to work in America’s tobacco fields” through an exclusion in labor law that allows youth as young as 12 years old to work unlimited hours as farm workers, says the New York Times in a story about youth labor on tobacco farms. The story says field workers risk… » Read More

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