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Behind the Bastards

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The Problem With the 1938 Fair Labor Act

In 1918, the Supreme Court rules that it's unconstitutional to ban child labor. FDR gets into this giant fight with the Supreme Court. And the first child labor law, we get federal child labor law that gets that sticks. It doesn't actually do shit to like reduce the amount of child labor in the country.

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