Exploitive Child Labor in the Twenty-First Century
John Kass of the
Chicago Tribune has
uncovered (registration required) a shocking case of child labor in
Chicago.
Fortunately, the Illinois Department of Labor has stepped in and used its Powers of Discretionary
Persecution Prosecution to punish the grandmother who paid her grandchildren in token money or candy to wash the window of her resale shop.
Coming next: an all-out assault on parents who expect their offspring to
do chores for their allowances. Undoubtedly, the parents, like the state, should just dish out money for nothing.