Businesses in Iowa have been struggling to find workers and fought to change the state’s child labor law to make it easier to hire teenagers under sixteen. However, critics say the new law puts low-income kids at risk who might be under pressure to make money for their families and therefore vulnerable to exploitation. NBC News’ Stephanie Gosk reports.
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Let them do the Illegal Aliens jobs!
The one issue some municipalities have is strict curfew laws for under 16s. Municipalities would have to be pro-active in re-visiting restrictive curfew laws.
As long as a business doesn't leave a young employee stranded out in the boondocks when shift is done I think parents would be on-board.
Iowa has always been lax about child labor. During my HS years, I worked closing shifts until 2am, pulled 30hrs some weeks on top of school, and found myself unable to stay awake in classes.
Within the farming culture there, kids were expected to contribute as soon as they are capable. No matter how young.
training younger people to work now just a way for America to train factory workers at a younger age.
HOW YOUNG are you allowed to be and work?
This seems innocent on it's face. What isn't discussed in detail is the motives of corporations. Corporations seek only one thing: profit. Profits for executives and shareholders. In the last 75 or so years, corporations have ceased to improve products as a means for greater profit margins largely due to the concept of functional obsolescence (don't improve design of products so consumers have to replace them). The profit increases come in 2 sectors: automation and reduction of labor costs (conglomeration is also a factor, but on a macro scale…).
The drive to increase profits by hiring a younger workforce will be inevitable. It can be argued that younger people will take jobs for less pay, are easier to replace than older workers, and will work in conditions not acceptable to people with significant work experience. But, don't worry. I'm sure the corporations will act responsibly…
This is so wrong in many ways.. Kids can't be Kids…
NO NO NO. These laws are aimed at getting illegal alien kids hired in the meat packing plants. This reporting is really naive!
They are lying. We abolished child labor for these exact reason. Exploiting children.
In economics, a labor shortage means that pay is not high enough for more people to enter that job market. This is so dumb.
THIS WAY GREEDY COMPANIES CAN CONTINUE STARVATION WAGES AND JUST ENSLAVE ENTIRE FAMILIES. CLEVER GOP. NO ONE IS ON TO YOU.
ONCE A CHILD IS BORN AFTER FORCED BIRTH THE GOP DOES NOT GIVE A F ABOUT KIDS. PERIOD.
Why does a piece of paper or' a bit of information, like a diploma that doesn't have any value!!! Your brain and back matters. (How you use that matters.) Not a paper, that doesn't matter. There are many of people with; high school diplomas in prison.📢📢✌️✌️
That's America for you, justifying slave labor. The U.S. will ALWAYS give voodoo talk for their BS while at the same time pointing fingers at other countries for whatever they don't believe. Yay Merica.
😂 American needs slave labor and has to get ot from somewhere 🙄
Iowa changed state welfare laws to ASSURE economic desperation wil force kids into the labor market
😂 Americans are stupid 🙄
0:36 David tries to do the standard American shuffle of pretending like they care and its not just the money grab
Put kids to work keep them busy and off social media. Industry should take advantage of this opportunity and put kids to work
Kids need to work again
I had to work since I was way too young according to laws but it definitely made me know that I wasn't entitled. There was also a high school program that you could leave half a day to work and got school credit
Well the Robber Barons are back. This sounds like child sacrifice to the Big Wigs
I love the grounded reality of this channel!!,Despite the recession, I no longer depend on Government Grant since i earn $60,000 every 27days