The Economy

The last time I was at Sanibel (2008), if you went right at the end of the causeway it still seemed like Sanibel. Didn't see high-rises on Perriwinkle and West Gulf. Not sure what's still there after the most recent hurricane.

 

Maybe he died doing what he loved?

 

He was a lumberjack and he was OK?

 

Probably the son of a manager or something, like most of these stories wind up being.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/

The Florida-based think tank and its lobbying arm, the Opportunity Solutions Project, have found remarkable success among Republicans to relax regulations that prevent children from working long hours in dangerous conditions. And they are gaining traction at a time the Biden administration is scrambling to enforce existing labor protections for children.

The FGA achieved its biggest victory in March, playing a central role in designing a new Arkansas law to eliminate work permits and age verification for workers younger than 16. Its sponsor, state Rep. Rebecca Burkes (R), said in a hearing that the legislation “came to me from the Foundation [for] Government Accountability.”

“As a practical matter, this is likely to make it even harder for the state to enforce our own child labor laws,” said Annie B. Smith, director of the University of Arkansas School of Law’s Human Trafficking Clinic. “Not knowing where young kids are working makes it harder for [state departments] to do proactive investigations and visit workplaces where they know that employment is happening to make sure that kids are safe.”

That law passed so swiftly and was met with such public outcry that Arkansas officials quickly approved a second measure increasing penalties on violators of the child labor codes the state had just weakened.

 

Maybe!

https://www.wpr.org/teen-boy-dies-following-industrial-accident-northern-wisconsin-sawmill

In Wisconsin, minors are prohibited from working in many occupations in logging and sawmills. According to the state Department of Workforce Development, children under 18 are prohibited from entering a sawmill building. They are also not allowed to work felling or bucking timber, collection or transporting logs, operating or assisting in operating power-driven machinery, handling or using explosives, working on trestles, working on portable sawmills, working in lumberyards used for storing green lumber or using a chainsaw.

 

That's how this shit happens. Under the table, relative of someone gets in, the less paperwork the better.

It's not like they have a bunch of 16-year-olds standing in line for interviews.

I hope.

 

Sounds like a hefty lawsuit.

 

Sounds like employers want to suppress wages.

 

I can take as much home in retirement as my current job pays.

My statement to them when I retire is clear: "What's keeping me here?"