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Child Labor

History

Hat Havoc in the Big Apple

September 24, 2025 | Katrina Gulliver
Justice

California’s Dirty Secret

July 24, 2025 | Connor Vasile
Politics

What Many Critics of Child Labor Overlook

January 2, 2024 | Benjamin Seevers
Education

The Labor Market Shortage is Exposing Two Big Ways the Government Hurts Teenagers

June 3, 2021 | Kerry McDonald
Education

Work Can Be Better for Kids Than School

August 7, 2019 | Isaac M. Morehouse
Culture

Fretting Parents of Today Should Keep in Mind How Dangerous Childhood Was a Century Ago

August 28, 2018 | Chelsea Follett
Education

Factory-Like Schools Are the Child Labor Crisis of Today

November 14, 2017 | Kerry McDonald
Economics

Child Labor Was Wiped Out by Markets, Not Government

August 23, 2017 | Antony Davies
Economics

Teenagers without Summer Jobs Risk Social Failure

June 17, 2017 | Mark Judge
Culture

Birth Rates are at Historic Lows and Here’s a Major Reason

May 19, 2017 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
Education

Let the Kids Work

November 3, 2016 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
Economics

We Didn’t Humanize Markets, Markets Humanized Us

September 8, 2016 | Steven Horwitz
Education

When Child Labor Is Your Only Option

June 28, 2016 | Andrew Davis
Politics

3 Policies with Good Intentions and Tragic Consequences

January 21, 2016 | Corey Iacono
Economics

How Not to Help Sweatshop Workers

September 2, 2015 | Sandy Ikeda
Politics

Is Michelle Obama a Brilliant Experimental Economist?

July 1, 2015 | BK Marcus
Politics

Texas Will Stop Putting Kids in Jail for Skipping School

June 24, 2015 | Jason Bedrick
Economics

NYT: Paid Family Leave Laws Often Backfire

June 10, 2015 | Nicole Kaeding
Economics

#30 – Capitalism’s Industrial Revolution Cursed the World with the Horror of Child Labor

November 7, 2014 | Lawrence W. Reed
Economics

#21 – “Capitalism’s Sweatshops and Child Labor Cry Out for Government Intervention”

September 5, 2014 | Paul L. Poirot
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