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I\u2019ve interviewed hundreds of these children, and seen how their work puts their health, their safety, and their education at risk. The new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdgsproposal\u0022\u003ESustainable Development Goals\u003C\/a\u003E adopted this month at the United Nations set an ambitious goal \u2013 eliminating child labor in all its forms by 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s a tall order.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EPoor families that struggle to meet basic needs often feel they have no choice but to send their children to work. But over the long term, child labor only perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Children who enter the workforce at an early age end up with less education and lower earnings as adults and are more likely to send their own children to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThis cycle can be broken. Between 2000 and 2012, child labor rates worldwide \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ilo.org\/global\/about-the-ilo\/newsroom\/news\/WCMS_221568\/lang--en\/index.htm\u0022\u003Efell by one-third,\u003C\/a\u003E as governments strengthened laws and implemented policies to boost school enrollment and mitigate the economic desperation of poor families that drives children to work. Governments have put more children in school by eliminating fees, improving school transportation, and providing school meals and other incentives for education. Programs pioneered in Latin America that provide poor families with monthly stipends \u2013 often known as \u201ccash transfer programs\u201d \u2013 have been another successful means to both increase school enrollment and reduce child labor. Strong legislative frameworks prohibiting child labor are also essential, accompanied by labor inspections, enforcement, and penalties for violators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the encouraging progress over the last dozen years won\u2019t be enough to eliminate child labor by 2025 without stronger action. Governments should accelerate efforts, reaching out to the most vulnerable populations, ensuring robust enforcement of strong child labor laws, and providing alternative opportunities for children removed from hazardous jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EA decade may not seem like much time to end child labor, but ten years from now, the child workers I interviewed may have children of their own. 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