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Key Recommendations
Congress should:
- Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to protect all working children equally.
- Address the educational and vocational needs of farmworkers, particularly those of farmworker youth who have dropped out of school.
The Department of Labor should:
- Dramatically increase inspections targeting child labor violations in agriculture.
- Sanction violators to the fullest extent of the law.
- Stop the shipment of goods produced in violation of child labor or minimum age laws.
The Environmental Protection Agency should:
- Act to better protect child farmworkers from pesticide exposure.
- Impose a minimum age of eighteen for all pesticide handlers.
Individual states:
- Should adopt child labor laws at least as protective as federal standards, and set a minimum age for agricultural work of at least fourteen.
Click here for detailed recommendations from the June 2000 Human Rights Watch report "Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers".
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