{"id":7380,"date":"2023-03-13T06:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2023-03-13T20:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:36:55","slug":"lesson-plan-a-new-child-labor-crisis-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7380","title":{"rendered":"<strong><em><strong><em>Lesson Plan: A New Child Labor Crisis in America<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country, a New York Times investigation found. This shadow work force extends across industries in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century. Twelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee. Underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina. Children sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Learning Network&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Get teaching and learning resources based on New York Times journalism.&nbsp;Get it sent to your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Largely from Central America, the children are driven by economic desperation that has been worsened by the pandemic. This labor force has been slowly growing for almost a decade, but it has exploded since 2021, while the systems meant to protect children have broken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this lesson, students will learn about the current child labor crisis in the United States and, now that it has been exposed, what is being done to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/12\/learning\/lesson- plans\/lesson-plan-a-new-child-labor-crisis-in-america.html\">Nytimes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country, a New York Times investigation found. This shadow work force extends across industries in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[3203],"class_list":["post-7380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-immigrant-children-in-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}