Me: If 14 is the minimum age for non-agricultural work, what's the minimum age for agricultural work? 😬 DOL: Youths of any age may work at any time in any job on a farm owned or operated by their parents. Me: ...is that bad? I feel like that's probably bad. www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...
Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet - U.S. Department of Labor
"About every three days, a child dies in an agriculture-related incident, and each day, at least 33 children are seriously injured, said Marsha Salzwedel, Ed.D...." marshfieldresearch.org/nccrahs-news...
LaVoy Finicum, the guy who got himself killed in a shootout with the police after participating in the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said that his "main source of income" was being paid by Catholic Charities to take in foster children to work on his ranch
LaVoy Finicum told OPB his four foster children were removed from his Arizona home due to his involvement in the armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.