[E. Pluribus Unum]

Child labor laws weren’t for the benefit of the children or their families, they were enacted for the benefit of the unions

Minimum wage, too.

The minimum wage was invented to do one thing; protect white unionized construction workers from competition from black, non-unionized construction workers, who were paid less (blacks were banned from union membership during the 1930s).

The year the minimum wage law went into effect was the last year the unemployment rate of blacks was lower than that for whites.

[Uncle Slayton]

Millions upon millions of kids were able to work on the family farm, the family store, family cotton mills and coal mines.

The work was needed to be done and we had a willing and free workforce, while today we don’t have large willing workforce and by no means with unions and regulations do we have a free workforce.

If we were to drop the current regulations on child labor and other issues, we could bring millions of these types of jobs back to the USA.

[ExTxMarine]

WHAT?!?!

How dare you speak such blasphemy to the holy Liberal word?!? These laws were for the chill'ren! That is the only thing on these great, loving people's minds - those poor chill'ren!

Any collateral damage to non-union people was just lucky, very coordinated, coincidence!

[achilles2000]

True dat...

[ROTB]

The year the minimum wage law went into effect was the last year the unemployment rate of blacks was lower than that for whites.

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