Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds

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• Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So every 2 weeks in average you have a workplace child labour death? I’m going to go on the assumption that child means under 18 and not actual children but that’s still fucked up.

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I'd presume a kid doing e.g. newspaper delivery and getting hit'n'run by a car is what counts towards these statistics. On one hand I want to think that a country like the US is above and beyond child labour, but on the other... I remember how 50+ years of family/kids movies made it seem normal that 12-13 year olds have to work to get some allowance/money to buy things for themselves....

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  • yessikg@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, it's really hard to know for sure since a lot of children are paid off the books. We do know that the meat industry hires kids because of workplace accidents

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