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The Iowa state legislature has passed a Republican proposal to allow children as young as 14 to work in meat coolers and roll back a number of other child labor protections.

that bills to expand child labor laws are spreading across the country. “Even if this isn’t happening in your state, it is coming to your state soon. I promise you,” Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO President Charlie Wishman toldis widely read among people with lower ­incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own.

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