May 30, 2023
The first post in this disgusting “series” is located here
It looks like Iowa’s class traitor governor has indeed signed into law a bill that allows children as low as 14 to work 6 hours a day during the school year.
You can read more here - bewarned, the site pops regarding adblockers…
Let’s do a little math. 6 hours a day for a 14 year old. School “gets out” around 3pm, maybe? They can get settled and punched in by 4pm. Maybe 3:30 if they’re not in a rural area. 4pm + 6 hours is 10pm. Home by 10:30? Dinner and homework and then what… bed by midnight?
But hey, the article states that they do get workers comp when they are injured on the job…
“It builds relationships, it helps them find what they have a passion for and hopefully keeps them in our communities,” she [Reynolds] said on a May 12 episode of “Iowa Press” on Iowa PBS.
Don’t, for one second, fall for the idea that children want to work - they’re marketed such that they will have belief in the ideas this Reynolds is pushing. “Work, like smoking, makes you cool and connect to people,” I imagine they would have said some 50-70 years ago.
Families that send their children to work, or pretend they “allow” it, will, in my opinion, be a cohort of two groups:
- People who need to send children to help pay for raising rents, food prices, energy/heat/utilities, amid a market that is paying people as little as possible. For reference, read any of the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. While “technically” fiction, it’s also “technically” non-fiction.
- People who allow their children to labor for someone else’s profit becaue the kid is a genious, really into one specific thing, a self-starter, or an asshole and they want them out of the hosue.
Makeup of that ratio: 99.99% former, 0.01% latter.