Sally Kohn: There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that this so-called job shortage is dubious. She says if appropriately skilled humans don't want to work for me under the conditions I've set, that doesn't mean there's a human shortage. Kohn: If we're going to use it as a pretext or justification or front load an article about the urgent need for child labor with this labor shortage, like I beg reporters to just interrogate the concept even a little bit.
In this public News Brief, we detail how uncritical acceptance by centrist––and even liberal––media that the US is seeing an unprecedented "labor shortage" is helping justify repealing child labor protections in roughly a dozen states.