The Senate voted on a bill allowing 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts, and passed it at 4:52 a.m.

The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.

  • TheFreshestHell [he/him,any]
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    2 years ago

    Spot of hope? The first gilded age was succeeded by the progressive era, when we got speakeasies and revolutions and the birth of most modern welfare systems