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Posted on 03/15/2023 8:55:03 PM PDT by Celerity
Arkansas is now reliably a daily butt of late-night talkshow hosts, national journalists and all of your out-of-state friends.
The evergreen question is: What insane thing did our state government do today that people outside the Natural State aren’t going to be able to wrap their heads around?
Today, writer Tesnim Zekeria with Popular Information examines the new Arkansas law that lets 14- and 15-year-olds in Arkansas go to work without permits. The Youth Hiring Act of 2023, signed into law by Gov. Sarah Sanders last week, means the state will no longer be verifying that kids are old enough to take the job or that the hours and working conditions are safe and age-appropriate.
ADVERTISEMENT Zekeria notes that this rollback of protections for kids comes mere weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor announced they’d busted two Arkansas meat factories for hiring children for overnight cleaning shifts. Oh, and instances of child labor violations have been on a steady rise in recent years.
The governor’s spin doctors say this new state law removes government from parents’ and families’ decisions. It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s paid any attention at all to how Sanders operates that in fact, the law does not do this at all.
The article may be behind a pay wall for some. It's pretty wretched itself.
Posted from my phone. Sorry for the sloppiness.
In other words, the state is letting the parents set the standards for the children and teach them how to balance life.
Oh the humanity!
Article assumes that companies will come take children in the middle of the night and Shanghai them into Tyson chicken plants and Walmart warehouses.
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They know Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a rising star.
All red states are wretched, you people from blue areas need to stay away.
Hopefully, they can keep the moronic pervs out of their beautiful state.
Being attacked by Late-Night Talk Show hosts is a badge of honor.
Yep. Welcome to Florida. Or maybe, welcome to George W. Bush’s Texas. The media don’t like us too much, either.
I agree. Y’all liberals don’t know how bad it is here. Just stay in your cozy blue hives and enjoy. :-)
I didn’t realize I was being abused when I went to work at 15 behind a drugstore lunch counter. I thought that making $1.25 an hour was pretty sweet. There were guys upporting families with that kind of money back then in 1962.
Is Arkansas letting 12-year-olds “transition,” making knowingly lying to a partner about having AIDS and giving it to them not a felony, making stores have gender neutral sections, etc., etc., etc. like California? No? Then I’m not scratching my head about what this particular state’s legislature is doing.
And why is Arkansa the butt of these jokes?
Its Governor, that’s why. You never heard the 48th state
In education trashed for it when Bill Clinton was there.
They’ll get out front of Huckabee, because she may just
turn presidential on them. They can’t allow that.
Yep…
“relentless and heartless assaults on already-suffering transgender youth are the violations most likely to drive children to mental anguish and suicide”
Natural selection...cleansing of the gene pool...or, Mom and Dad should never have had kids cuz they don’t know how to equip them.
YES!
Which one?
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