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The Century Foundation, Julie Su, Senior Fellow, April 3, 2025
- Thirteen-year-old children working the night shift cleaning the kill floors of meatpacking plants, their small hands barely able to hold the tools they are required to use.
- Working people putting in fifty-hour workweeks and getting paid for just a fraction of the hours they worked.
- Hardworking coal miners working underground, forced to travel miles in mines that haven’t had safety inspections.
- Retirees who worked hard all their lives losing their nest eggs due to irresponsible decisions by the managers of their retirement plan.
These are the nightmares that could become the norm in a country without a strong U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).