Critics are backing a push to strengthen federal law that protects child workers. The number of children illegally employed rose 69% since 2018, government data shows.
"We've got to think about what children are being affected by this – it's the children desperate enough to work longer because they need the money," Castellano said. "Work is going to consume them."
Farmworkers wear face masks as they carry boxes of harvested curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California.Iowa enacted a law last month that permits 14- and 15-year-olds to work two extra hours each day that coincides with school, raising the limit from four to six hours. Such children are also able to work until 9 p.m. for the majority of the year and until 11 p.m. between June 1 and Labor Day, increasing the limit by two hours.
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