The voices we never hear.
Recent articles claim that proposed federal DOL legislation would have interfered in a child's opportunity to learn farm work - that working on a farm was excellent for teaching children to be more responsible.
Unfortunately, the mark missed nearly half a million children currently employed seasonally and migrating, sometimes without parents, to work in agriculture. Once again, their voices were barely whispers among a sea of farmers and lobbyists and other agencies insisting that making agriculture safer for children would somehow tear at the fabric of our nation. I'm not buying it. Do you want to buy food harvested this way? | The air she breathes...enough said.
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When youth speak
YouthSpeak 2011 was an amazing success. Go here to read about how youth demonstrated skill and courage in one rural North Carolina community!
NC FIELD youth help spread the word |
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