Employing loopholes and exploiting children in U.S. agriculture
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) prohibits the employment of youth under 18 in hazardous jobs, except for one industry that is particularly dangerous and the largest employer of children: agriculture. Luz Vazquez Hernandez is just one of the many young children who started working in the fields at age 14, traveling for picking seasons in Michigan and Florida in extreme heat, with hazardous chemicals, under severe physical duress. Amid recent
