452 children died on the job in the US between 2003 and 2016

Child labor exists in the United States in the 21st century. It’s legal and widespread, but it differs enough from the work you remember from headlines and textbooks that you may not have noticed.It’s also, in some cases, dangerous. Children were killed on the job in construction, retail, transportation and even manufacturing and logging. But most of them, 52 percent, died working in agriculture.A 12-year-old was cleaning drainage systems in Tennessee in March when an ATV […]