YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...

The number of working children aged 5-17 fell to 861,000 in 2024, continuing a three-year decline. Child labor engagement also dropped to 509,000, representing 1.6 percent of the total child ...

Members of the DOLE-7 Regional Council Against Child Labor, parents and partner stakeholders sign a pledge of commitment during an information and service caravan on Nov. 22, 2025. (PIA7) For Noreen ...

Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have considered or have been strengthening and updating the laws on their ...

Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New ...