
News Brief: Media's Credulous "Labor Shortage" Reporting Helps Lay Groundwork For Repealing Child Labor Laws
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The Myth of a Labor Shortage
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.
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