The bill would let kids under 16 work now until 9 p.m., instead of 7 p.m. and quitting time would be extended during the summer months from 9p.m. to 11pm. The same bill says kids need their parents permission to serve alcohol if they work in a bar or a restaurant, but it is allowed with permission. This is like people who do the child marriages. As long as you have the parents permission is if that's the relevant criteria,. It allows them to now drive to work by allowing people as young as 14 and a half years old to get a driver's license.
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.