Today in Ohio podcast delivers fiery takedown of lawmakers who supported extending work hours for teens, as hosts praise ...

I am very happy to be the mom of one child and don’t want another. My labor and recovery was very difficult. I struggled with ...

Thousands of children are part of a faceless legion of underage workers in California who put fresh fruit and vegetables on ...

Making a concerted effort to recoup uncollected fines would incentivize industry leaders to protect the health and welfare of ...

According to a lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly directed his company to prioritize the metaverse over youth safety, among other violations.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A recent survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, with support from Unicef, has unravelled some bleak statistics on children from low-income households. Although 84 percent of children in ...

An attack by Ohio’s Republican lawmakers on child welfare had Today in Ohio podcast hosts wondering Wednesday whether the next step is sending them to work in coal mines. Legislators have passed a ...

There are only two types of investors: those who have unlawful child labor in their portfolios, and those who do not yet know that they have unlawful child labor in their portfolios. So we present ...

WTF?! If you were going to pay someone to build a PC, how would you expect the labor costs to be? One Redditor was quoted the comically high price of over $11,000 for a build that was allegedly going ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries. Credit - JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP—Getty Images In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, ...