Counted for over 50 percent of all did child fatalities the arned my masters degree. However the majority of farmers do not even graduate high school they drop out four times the national average. I am not alone for these are the same harrowing experiences i heard my parents and grandparents and also heard from other farmers throughout my career. Its experience approximate 3000 farm working children today each of them a life, person, part of our community. But would be even more heartbreaking as congress chooses to do nothing will be the same experience youre going to hear from children 20 years from now. Data clearly shows agriculture to the u. S. Child labor laws to the detriment of child farm workers which the majority are u. S. Citizens. The care act sponsored by representative cosponsored by many members of this committee will give children working agriculture the same workplace protection that every other working child is provided. The protect 12 yearolds from exploitation and re
Examine ways to improve safety conditions for youth would that that workon farms around americ. Today we are meeting to examine workplace detections for child farmworkers. Todays hearing represents the third in the series for spotlight workers that are all too often overlooked, neglected and exploited. The hearings have been invented to lift workers up and champion their causes. Each day hundreds of thousands many of whom come from low income migrant families risk their health and wellbeing while working on farms across the country. Child farmworkers should be able to rely on the basic workplace protections that are standard. Unfortunately, the nations labor law has left the child workers behind. While the fair standard laborers fact provides protections in the workforce, children working in the Agricultural Industry are either excluded from many of these protections were provided Legal Protections for example unlike other industries, child farmworkers can be assigned hazardous jobs fr
We are hiring. I am 16 getting paid more than my friends. Do they exploit workers . Mark cuban says it is ridiculous. The minimumwage killed the first job. That is our show. Tonight. [applause] john this studio audience is filled with young people. In terms. They have become increasingly common about half of college stdents do some type of internship to build a resume for about also four companies to try the workers out. For cheap. How many are paid real wages . How many is paid . Nobody . [laughter] arent you exploited . Nobody . [laughter] the Obama Labor Department says they are. It issued a sheet said free in turn sips internships has no immediate advantage. What . Then why would they 11 . Ssa it is better for the business the business could be impeded. Ru kidding me . I had the the in turn like that. We parted company. [laughter] i have used them all of my career. Someday research. Summer journalist. But they say the Labor Department should punish those companies. Our next guest a
And gabe sherman on his new reporting. Trump insiders comparing the mood to game of thrones. Winter is coming. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There are now just 42 days to go until donald trump becomes president of the United States. With every new appointment to his administration, the bait and switch on many of the people who voted for trump continues. His closing argument, lets recall, summed up in his final campaign ad was all about how a Global Financial elite had rigged the system against working people. And it specifically called out this guy, Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein as a member of the rogues gallery of plutocrats. Now almost a month later trump is set to nominate blankfeins number two to a post. Theyve asked gary cohn to serve as the director of the National Economic council and assistant to the president for economic policy. Hes worked at the bank for a quarter century, presiding over its role in packaging and selling the sub prim
The president elects name. Plus president obama orders a report on the alleged russian hacking due before january 20th. And gabe sherman on his new reporting. Trump insiders comparing the mood to game of thrones. Winter is coming. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There are now just 42 days to go until donald trump becomes president of the United States. With every new appointment to his administration, the bait and switch on many of the people who voted for trump continues. His closing argument, lets recall, summed up in his final campaign ad was all about how a Global Financial elite had rigged the system against working people. And it specifically called out this guy, Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein as a member of the rogues gallery of plutocrats. Now almost a month later trump is set to nominate blankfeins number two to a post. Theyve asked gary cohn to serve as the director of the National Economic council and assistant to the president for econ