Santander recently released a quarterly survey of about 2,250 middle-income bank and financial services customers (defined as having household incomes between $47,000 and $142,000.)
Illegal child labor is on the rise in a tight job marketUS child labor violations have jumped in recent years.
Now, the Department of Labor has announced actions it’s taken so far this year through a new interagency task force on child labor.
Between October 1, 2022, and July 20, 2023, the Department of Labor concluded 765 child labor cases, found 4,474 children employed in violation of federal child labor laws and assessed more than $6.6 million in penalties against employers, the agency announced on Thursday.
In addition, the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department is currently pursuing more than 700 open child labor cases.
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