Children as young as 14 could be working overnight shifts in the school week in areas like agriculture & construction to make up for the shortfall of migrant labour in Florida.
What parent would allow their 14 year old to work an overnight shift? To me that's child neglect.
When I was 14, I had a job at McDonald's. Labor laws allowed me to work til midnight on weekends. My mother had a different law and laid it on the manager. Never worked a late shift again.
Worked in a Florida middle school for 7 yrs. Do you know who was working the orchards? Yep, immigrant kids on the weekend. When I suggested to other kids to do the same, "I'm not picking fruit," i expect not much has changed.
I worked at age 14 for a friend of my dad. Washing windows at nite. I started falling asleep in class. My mother put her foot down. No more work. So dad took my place!
Florida to do away with mastery tests along with this bill.
Send Barron, Jr’s kids, Eric’s kids, and Ivanka’s kids. They are not royalty and they live in Florida. They’ve never done a day’s work in a garden, much less a hot field with minimal outhouses.
Whenever Conservatives talk about reducing workers rights, access to healthcare, etc, they do so from a position of knowing they’ll not only be unaffected, they’ll profit …
No abortion. Force girls to carry babies they can’t support. Young fathers with no skill are pushed into labor jobs. They can’t afford daycare. Mom is forced to stay home and stop education, and grandparents are forced to use up their savings or retirement. The entire family is now gov dependent.
Ah well, it's not as if repugnicans want them to be educated anyway.
They create a problem based on racism and stupidity, and keep creating worse problems because their solutions are also based on racism and stupidity. An endlessly vicious cycle of racism and stupidity.
…And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father & never want joy.
And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags & our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;
So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
Night farming in California IS actually a thing and has been for decades to avoid the heat and the Trucks have portable lights. But Picking is only part of the process - there’s also packing.
We hear of this occasionally in Mi. It’s sent a friend of mines daughter into anxiety attacks and has left school because of the fear she had being left alone at this business. A gun fight popped up at the business next door and I just… I can’t imagine what she is going through. Suburbia in 2025.
That’s the plan my friend. Those poor kids will be working in the chicken processing plants, canneries, restaurants etc. and they’ll be too exhausted to go to school. But hey! They’ll be making about $500 a week! I wonder what kinda benefits a 14 year old gets?
Exactly! Who needs an education when children will be too tired to learn because they're engaging in forced labor! Next, we'll be seeing private for profit "education" camps popping up after the crazed GOP passes laws that take our children away from us to serve time in such camps!
They can loosen the law all they want. as much as they want it to be, its not 1943. What employer will want to hire, train, and employ a 14yro. Have you met a 14yro lately. In 1943 they would get fake IDs or older siblings IDs to go fight in WWII.. now, they wont go to the playground.
You are very naive. Ask the entire state of Nebraska if they'd take 14 year old workers. For that matter ask ANY farmer in the US whose laborers were deported or refuses to show up because they are afraid of being dragged away.
Florida, he’s the term limited governor of Florida. My entire rant was about Florida. This may very well work in other areas. It would not work in Florida. Maybe Agro. But even that. Without migrant and Immigrant families, the rest of the pop is too far from the fields for 14yros to fill the void.
Would you hire someone who doesn’t have a dependable method of getting to work. You might, but how long will they last. You’d be training new “kids” every few weeks
New hire + training costs companies a lot in lost time that trainer should be doing other things.
The same unscrupulous employers who have no qualms about hiring illegal workers? And this administration has zero regard for the law - it’s breaking laws daily.
True. Its also about training. The last time we had child labor, was the Great Depression and factories could just beat workers that failed. Or get Pinkertons to restore order. While its possible to eventually devolve to that. It would take much longer than what DeSantis is trying to fix here.
It’s as though, after 2 months of deliberate destruction and chaos, some people still think this administration cares about ordinary citizens and that it will mature enough to return to a rules based system.
What they want and whats feasible in the actual day-to-day. Are incongruent. I run a company and thought of a 14yro employee doing more than POS, cashwrap, or prep-work is terrifying.
They’re what going to bicycle to the job site, walk along I95?
Im sure there will be some teenagers that are now able to work legally out of this idiotic stunt law change, but those “kids” are already finding ways to work now. This isn’t an untapped employee market. It’s the consequences of a brash decision to eliminate the migrant and immigrant work force.
And not having enough workers that can afford to work at (low) wages that pay the astronomical cost of living in Florida. $17/hr
a gal of milk
a dz eggs
a loaf of bread
a gal of gas
$18.50
So they want “kids”, who in theory will work for less, closer to the min wage of $7.60
$7.60 on 40hrs is $304
Concerned it really IS part of their plan: create a generation of uneducated citizens whose only options are either life of crime or accept 'slave labor' jobs or possibly even sell themselves into slavery. I mean, doesn't 'the bible' talk abt Christian forefathers having slaves? These ppl are NUTS!
That is the plan. And it's not funny. They believe certain people are worthless and her only to serve their needs. And republican citizens feel the same way. They are willing to die ( and sacrifice their children) to serve their leader.
This is the master plan. Please pay attention to what is going on at the state level. This will be justified by kids getting dropped from special ed and not taken in by what's left of public schools. They know an uneducated manual labor workforce is coming.
This is why they came for inclusion, universities, and the department of education right away. They want everything they had before the New Deal and worse.
They scream "protect the children" constantly, but who cares about education and, oh I don't know, being a kid. We need them in the fields. They need to work all night for pennies. Evil.
Wait... when that won't pass... he'll ask Trump to bring him some fresh incarcerated illegal aliens to work the fields... then it'll be the auto industry that will need fresh workers... then it will be the camps.
All those kids playing video games all day after school will gladly give all that up to go pick oranges for less than minimum wage. Well, maybe for a day when they find out how hard farm work is and then it will be back to video games.
Or, hear me out... this was always the plan and explains why they are actively crashing the economy, so we will be primed to accept this. The owner class were frustrated with the gains labor made after the pandemic, and wants US workers to accept less.
This has been the plan for awhile. Arkansas revised child labor laws a couple years ago, Michigan did as well back in 2019, I think. A lot of the people working during Covid here were kids. Ours aren’t as bad as this, it opened up jobs that were not approved before. Like working in a bar at 14. 🙃
We could see this a long way coming, and not just in Florida.
That is also why the DOE is being terminated, so that Republican governors can write statelaws to allow kids to drop out of school when they are needed at the workplace.
These people are shameless politicians. Why don't they want children to survive until at least 50. They have not worked this out at all well. There will be more old people needing benefits, and less younger people to pay taxes for benefits. Perhaps do away with retirement, work people till they die.
Wonder how the job & housing market will treat the married 14yr old kids with babies when they can't pay their bills? There won't be any EBT, WIC, or medicaid to help them! Perverts voted to allow child brides as young as 12.
Ending social programs & deporting harmless immigrants wasn't very smart!
I'm not bashing all young parents; some are great.
If you marry off a child 16-17, they should be your financial responsibility until they're 18, regardless of where they're living! I also think a child being married before 16 should be a pedophilia/abuse charge on the parents consenting to it.
His peers think it's a great idea to replace deported migrant workers w kids while perverts voted lower marriage ages. Imagine married tweens picking crops. He thinks it's great. Most can't even clean their yard, now play grown-up & pay bills🤔 they still beg for allowances. Smart move, Repubs! 8647🗑
All because the far right won’t tolerate immigrants in our country, no matter how productive they are. So we now have to hire children to replace the lost workforce? This is batshit crazy and morally wrong!
As an Austrian, that is in Europe, who looks at all this from the outside, I would like to give Americans good advice. Run! Leave the country while you still can, go to Mexico, Canada, or come to us from me, but flee before it's too late.
As a Tamil whose parents fled from Sri Lanka to Germany in the 80s and who notices the rising aggression against refugees in Europe, I can't help but find some amusement in westeners trying to flee from their industry nations.
Ich kanns dir nicht verübeln 🤷♂️ und ich hoffe stark dass es bei uns nicht soweit kommt dass ich mir überlegen muss wie ich flüchten kann.
All das was passiert tut mir leid 💐
Ach, das muss dir nicht Leid tun. Aber es ist schon besorgniserregend wieviele Menschen den derzeitigen Rechtstrend gar nicht kritisieren. Oft herrscht wohl noch der Aberglaube, dass das Kapital sie bevorzugt behandeln würde, sobald es keine Flüchtlinge mehr gibt. Solidarität ist der Schlüssel hier.
Es ist immer wieder traurig mitanzusehen wie normal mittlerweile ist was früher unsagbar war, und wie leicht sich die Leute was vormachen lassen.
Ich hoffe ein klein wenig dass der Zustand in den Staaten bei uns bei einigen Mitläufern zu einem umdenken führt.
Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt, ja.
Make sure you have a shelter to hide your neighbors, in case they need to run from the government.
And be careful to whom you talk with about politics.
Where in the world is safe? We're seriously sitting on WWIII right now. Trump is taking on Canada and the EU and possibly Central America. Russia is being greenlit to invade Europe. Like...honest question because I don't know the answer here.
But remember a couple things:
-most countries are tightening their asylum laws
-most of us don’t have the wealth to run (like all the celebrities who are relocating)
I don’t have. Sorry. I don’t know how to flee, ask you illegal imigrants, they should know how to do, very few of them had a lot of money when they fled
Dissolving the Dept of Ed, deporting migrant workers, and loosening child labor laws is precisely where this was headed; an isolated US will need cheap labor to compete.
Your children will do…
Vance says have more babies
Its bc they deported all the workers. Now they want you to reproduce as much as possible so your kids can work in the factories and fields instead of going to school.
So, I guess Floida lawmakers think it's okay that 14 year olds should work overnight shifts and not be expected to then go to school after shift? How stupid and dangerous is this? Unbelievable.
They might have after SS is gutted. If the government can take away your Social Security, what is to stop them from going after your 401ks? They need the money more than you and could spend it wiser than you.
Why not just employ all the govt employees that Musk dumped into the workforce? According to Maga reps and senators, there are plenty of jobs for them. Assholes!
I was a nurse in a slaughter house, no one wants to work that. It's the last place for a growing body. Full grown men who are ripped get their bodies destroyed from this type of labor.
2nd solution is stop Medicare, social security and force everyone back to work at or below minimum wage for the good of corporate America and billionaires
Allowing children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts is nothing short of child abuse. Their bodies & brains are still growing & sleep is essential. It also means that those kids won’t be in school-which is probably required by law until a certain age. State sponsored truancy. And child abuse.
Immigrants fill in a lot of agricultural and construction jobs. Daytime jobs- i.e. school hours. Maybe DeSantis knows MAGA changes will cause parents to tighten their belts, and children should drop out? BTW likely they can't play in little league.
Obviously this isn't about making workers rich, but regenerating now missing work power. They're looking for young people to make their country's industry & economy strong again. YOU ESS AYY!
So, how many MAGA politicians will let their kids support such a patriotic cause? Donald J. III Trump? (15)
C'mon! If little kids can make rugs in Egypt and Afghanistan, then surely kids can pick strawberries and tomatoes here! Nimble little fingers, after all!
No, as usual the GOP fascists put profits over humans every time! How else are they going to continue to rake in money from their "political" donors? Children or some other "worthless" group need to work for next to nothing so these bastards can afford to continue to pay their reps & senators!
He's an asshole. Could you see 14 year old American boys doing the jobs that immigrants are doing. They would have to turn off their smart phones. I don't think so.
It won’t be the privileged kids of wealthy, white Republicans working the midnight shift instead of going to high school. It will be poor kids, black & brown kids, some legal immigrant kids. They need them uneducated & hopeless to prime them to be their subservient workers in their class war.
My bet is they’ll tie to the grades and at a certain GPA you’ll get grade credits by working. Employers will not have to pay minimum wage because ‘reasons’.
Yes I've been saying this for two years now. The MAGA Republican Party plan get rid of all the immigrants to exploit American children. It's why they are trying to shut down the Department of Education. It's why they are against college, even though their children go to the best schools n colleges.
What ever is going on the USA it is no longer a country to admire but just look to the heavens and roll your eyes at the next ludicrous thing that they have done
Hey, don't blame me it's what they voted for right. It's a mandate, it's a landslide. The richest nation in the world but not really because we're funneling all that wealth to the .01% and your kids start working at 14 until they die.
If you go on Black social media, they spell it out clearly. What Trump meant by “black jobs” was that these racists honestly thought they were gonna get their slaves back who would ditch their jobs to go pick crops in the field for $2 an hour. They honestly thought that was going to happen.🤦🖕🖕
Desantis is such an asshole. As long as there’s cruelty involved, he’s all in. “The proposal also would end a requirement that teens receive at least 30-minute meal breaks when they work eight-hour shifts."
Excellent! Boldly backpedaling through human history.
Child labor. Women make babies and meals. State-imposed religion. Whites-only. Imperialist wars. No science. Voodoo “health care”. Razor-sharp class divisions.
Nice, but I think it doesn't go far enough to be efficient. They should either make the work compulsory, preferably for 0 wages, failure to comply meaning expulsion from school, thus ensuring future cheap labour, or ensure lowering the parents wages so they have to send kids to make extra bucks.
As Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote more than a century ago, “if there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed—it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.” https://a.co/i7VsaaN
Hucksterbee will tell this is all about letting boys and girls do their chores (https://a.co/bbDauvL), but in the world of astroturfing (https://a.co/9KykaDR) it's all about profits for the oligarchs and a ready supply of uneducated slave slave labor.
Why did we ever come to accept a worldview so impervious to facts? A worldview Smith himself, often thought of as the father of free-market capitalism, would have rejected?
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I highly doubt that modern-day 14-year-olds, especially those born and raised in the US, are eager to work backbreaking jobs for a minimum wage. Plus, they would have to hire two minors to do the job of one adult.
They are the new aristocracy and they want the rest of us to be their new peasantry. I think they're already trying to exert feudal rights over our daughters, in effect, the end point of their festering misogyny.
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WTF is happening? Florida's trying to fix its labour shortage by letting 14-year-olds work overnight shifts, because nothing screams “economic strategy” like replacing migrant workers with sleep-deprived teenagers. All this while gutting child labour protections. What could possibly go wrong?
yep. a long time ago. more than a few friends paid tuitions by walking beans and detasseling corn. for both high school and university studies. these are the 'good old days' republicans want us to return to. but the pay has not kept up with the costs. it simply can't.
I had to work on a ranch between 14.5-17.5 years old that was a very private, VERY RELIGIOUS boarding school in TEXAS. I cleaned a chapel, washed pots & pans, moved irrigation lines and hauled hay.
I was paid between $15 -$25 PER MONTH.
I don’t see where this ends for the USA. These people have total control and face zero consequences. I don’t see how all serious democratic world leaders don’t come together and call these far right wannabe dictators out for what they are. They need to treat the USA like any repressive regime.
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Yes. Really.
When I was 14, I had a job at McDonald's. Labor laws allowed me to work til midnight on weekends. My mother had a different law and laid it on the manager. Never worked a late shift again.
Put headlamps on those kids and have them picking crops all night, then going to school during the day
Florida to do away with mastery tests along with this bill.
The #1 goal of the Republican party right now is to keep the poor poor and make the middle class poor.
They believe that they, as rich white men, are entitled to everything we have or could have.
We already have too many ignorants--the Magat crowd.
Yes bro, I want children to work around heavy machinery. That's exactly what my country needs.
Huh? Raise the national minimum wage, stop taxing diapers and formula and increase benefits? Who will THAT help??? /s
https://www.thecut.com/article/rfk-maha-mental-health-wellness-farms.html
They create a problem based on racism and stupidity, and keep creating worse problems because their solutions are also based on racism and stupidity. An endlessly vicious cycle of racism and stupidity.
He'd have God for his father & never want joy.
And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags & our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;
So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
The MC Donald’s in my mom’s neighborhood in Naples is being run by teenagers now!
„Trump Youth, League of American Worker Youth“
https://www.toolzo.online/2025/02/reports-of-animated-series-depicting.html
Considering child poverty levels and health costs..
Can they really refuse the money?
Would you hire someone who doesn’t have a dependable method of getting to work. You might, but how long will they last. You’d be training new “kids” every few weeks
New hire + training costs companies a lot in lost time that trainer should be doing other things.
DeSantis is doing this to fill shortfalls in labor for Agro and Construction. not stocking shelves or POS.
legal, non migrant, non immigrant kids don’t typically live near agriculture centers. Im pretty south. The closest real agro area is a 90min drive.
It’s usually just white people like me who think that teenagers don’t work & aren’t wanted for work. I know differently from firsthand.
The relaxing of laws is putting the youth that do work in danger.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/young-workers/charts/index.html
They’re what going to bicycle to the job site, walk along I95?
a gal of milk
a dz eggs
a loaf of bread
a gal of gas
$18.50
So they want “kids”, who in theory will work for less, closer to the min wage of $7.60
$7.60 on 40hrs is $304
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-venture-says-it-will-launch-stablecoin-2025-03-25/
What a governor.
Take back control.
- Florida style.
Why not allow government employees to work the fields and meat packing plants instead?
Next on the agenda:
reinstating sweat shops!
That is also why the DOE is being terminated, so that Republican governors can write statelaws to allow kids to drop out of school when they are needed at the workplace.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ending social programs & deporting harmless immigrants wasn't very smart!
If you marry off a child 16-17, they should be your financial responsibility until they're 18, regardless of where they're living! I also think a child being married before 16 should be a pedophilia/abuse charge on the parents consenting to it.
All das was passiert tut mir leid 💐
Ich hoffe ein klein wenig dass der Zustand in den Staaten bei uns bei einigen Mitläufern zu einem umdenken führt.
Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt, ja.
And be careful to whom you talk with about politics.
But remember a couple things:
-most countries are tightening their asylum laws
-most of us don’t have the wealth to run (like all the celebrities who are relocating)
If you have some plan/advice for the rest of us?
Your children will do…
Vance says have more babies
Those kids are just built for climbing up narrow, dirty flues.
The good old days.
Then death camps.
It’s coming.
They will just start sending more and more people into it, and relaxing the regulations for inmate labor even more.
But not for the kids.
Yeah, no, screw the kids. We need cheap labor.
notice I said MAGA kids, not all kids who are homeschooled.
when L’Orange Man bends the dipstick,
it’s ‘send in the children’?! 😏🤬
So, how many MAGA politicians will let their kids support such a patriotic cause? Donald J. III Trump? (15)
They are driven by hate and greed.
They hate 'others:' different colours, religions, nationalities.
But that doesn't mean they like or respect white Americans - they view them as fodder for the machine.
THEY THINK LIKE PUTIN.
Is he trying to kill his constituents?🙄
Money.💰💰🇺🇸
screw their golden years and relaxing! now the real work begins
''we just made it legal...Soon we will make it compulsory''
Turning back time !
Stop hurting our children for your selfish reasons!
It’s like Iowa has been a test environment for the MAGAs bullshit plans.
We already have school vouchers. One of the strictest abortion laws. Child labor laws rolled back. Refusing federal aid to help feed children.
Iowa is fucking awful.
Why is this a shock?
Child labor. Women make babies and meals. State-imposed religion. Whites-only. Imperialist wars. No science. Voodoo “health care”. Razor-sharp class divisions.
Feudal lords.
Dinosaurs walk the Earth.
Republican freedom means enforced child labor. And I already hear parents stating that this is only good for them.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/more-kids-are-getting-hurt-in-american-workplaces
"Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and we wan' go home..."
Regressing to over 100 years ago folks.
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So Floriduh is late to THAT party.
Finding the next group to gaslight and exploit.
What have the children done for us lately, anyway? Freeloading snot nosed, constantly hungry, WTF get a job!
They wouldn’t need an education to spend their lives as migrant laborers.
The new American dream: hope to die young to avoid a lifetime of misery. Thanks MAGA.
In project 2025. They really romanced the 1930’s haven’t they?
-Jesus of The Shithole South
I was paid between $15 -$25 PER MONTH.
-some zoggin steve
-> Immigrants are taking our jobs -> deportation of legal immigrants
-> let’s loosen child labor laws
Lessons in cognitive dysfunction