In the darker parts of America's past, child labor was common and even accepted, many developing nations hire child laborers to produce many of the products we take for granted. These children are almost always overworked, underpaid and often forced into difficult and dangerous work with little concern for their safety or well-being. These jobs also force these children into a life of unskilled labor.
Now, despite laws designed to protect children, many are once again being recruited into dangerous and backbreaking work in some slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants across the US. Both Perdue Farms and JBS USA, two of the country's largest meatpackers, have been caught with dozens of youth illegally on their payroll, and the US Labor Department has fined them 4 million dollars. This is, of course, pocket change to these huge companies, and isn't likely to discourage them from continuing to exploit children.
In fact, business leaders wishing to put their personal profits ahead of the health, safety or security of their employees are seeing a lot of opportunities with the latest version of the US government, which has repeatedly promised to favor the greed of the very wealth over the lives and futures of everyone else.
Our source for this meme is USA Today.
Now, despite laws designed to protect children, many are once again being recruited into dangerous and backbreaking work in some slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants across the US. Both Perdue Farms and JBS USA, two of the country's largest meatpackers, have been caught with dozens of youth illegally on their payroll, and the US Labor Department has fined them 4 million dollars. This is, of course, pocket change to these huge companies, and isn't likely to discourage them from continuing to exploit children.
In fact, business leaders wishing to put their personal profits ahead of the health, safety or security of their employees are seeing a lot of opportunities with the latest version of the US government, which has repeatedly promised to favor the greed of the very wealth over the lives and futures of everyone else.
Our source for this meme is USA Today.
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