Florida Pushes Teen Labor as Immigration Crackdown Hits Businesses
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The stench of hypocrisy hangs heavy as Florida lawmakers push children into overnight shifts. The bitter taste of exploitation becomes law as teens as young as 14 will now fill jobs abandoned during DeSantis' immigrant purge. You can hear the exhausted yawns of schoolchildren working past midnight while feeling the weight of their backpacks, still heavy with homework. The cold fluorescent lights of overnight shifts will replace rest for Florida's youth, who will work without guaranteed meal breaks.
As child labor violations have tripled, lawmakers' callous fingerprints remain on bills that strip away protections. The deafening silence of concern for these children contrasts sharply with the thunderous rhetoric against immigrants who once filled these undesirable, low-wage positions. Meanwhile, economists' warnings about inflation and labor shortages fall on deβ¦
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