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9 Mar 2023


NextImg:A New Child Labor Crisis in America

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Slaughterhouses, construction sites, factories. A Times investigation has found that migrant children have been thrust into jobs in some of the most demanding workplaces in the United States.

How did this crisis in child labor develop? And now that it has been exposed, what is being done to tackle the problem?


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ImageA line of children in front of a white bus waiting to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas.
The number of unaccompanied minors entering the United States climbed to a high of 130,000 last year — three times what it was five years earlierCredit...Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

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