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Congress and White House decided to turn their back, but child labor on U.S. farms hasn’t disappeared
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on August 8, 2012
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The NBC News affiliate in California’s Bay Area released last week a multi-part investigative series entitled “Children in the field: American kids pick your food.” Congress and the White House embrace the fiction of family farms, but children working on farms tell a different story.
Occupational Health News Roundup
Posted by Liz Borkowski on July 24, 2012 Members of Congress and the Mine Safety & Health Administration respond to an investigative series on the resurgence of black lung disease among miners; OSHA cracks down on railroad employers who retaliate against whistleblowing employees, and relies on education rather than an emergency standard to address heat stress; and gunmen in Pakistan attack the vehicle of a doctor involved in a polio vaccination campaign.