Most successful adults began working as teenagers.
Perhaps they delivered newspapers or manned the till at a McDonald's. Perhaps they spent weeks in the summer detasseling corn or their Saturdays directing cars into parking spots before college football games. But whatever they did, all those people who worked as teenagers learned at a young age an important lesson for adulthood: that they needed to work, earn, and be responsible for making their own way in life.
It is sometimes claimed that permitting allows a state to verify each child's age, but birth certificates already do this. Moreover, any prospective employee who can write his or her birth date on a permit application already has to put the same information on the federal W-9 tax form.
Meanwhile, in Arkansas, it remains illegal to employ 13-year-olds, just as it was before. And 14- and 15-year-olds are still limited, as they were before, in the hours they can work.
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