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America's Misconception and Ignorant Proliferation of Global, Child Labor

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"The state's largest farm organization launched a year-long campaign Thursday against proposed changes to federal safety standards for children working in agriculture.

 

The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation chose the state FFA convention in downtown Lincoln as the backdrop for an effort called "Let Me Get My Hands Dirty."

 

FFA members, including state President Brennan Costello of Gothenburg, and advisers including Anita Wollenberg of Wilber-Clatonia, were among those who stepped forward in support of Farm Bureau concerns about limiting the involvement of those younger than 15 in hands-on agriculture.

 

Wollenberg said the first proposed changes to safety rules for children from the Department of Labor since the 1970s go too far.

 

Her students learn by doing, she said.

 

"They are taking that right and that privilege away from them."

 

Costello said the rule changes threaten the supervised agricultural experience students get through their schools and the summer money they earn on farms operated by somebody other than their parents."

 

Does anyone remember the paper boy or a lemonade stand where children in America tried to not only make extra money but were also participating in the capitalistic opportunities of our Nation? Now, with the zealous overreach of legislative control, a child can't even work mowing lawns and in even some of the most extreme cases, chores at home are being challenged. In fact, many chores which are an intrinsic part of learning responsibility in a family team are being challenged and considered as child labor.   As reported by The Last Refuge ,

 

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