World hunger and world poverty seem like faraway problems to the average American. But such an opinion is to effectively ignore that, according to 2010 estimates by the United Nations, 925 million people in the world are starving. That amounts to about three starving people per American. Furthermore, approximately 9 million children died before their […]
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“The term ‘child labor’ is defined by the United States Department of Labor as the employment of boys and girls when they are too young to work for hire; or when they are employed at jobs unsuitable or unsafe for children of their ages.” (Americana 461) According to American life-styles, children should be at school […]