Easing child labor laws is bad for kids and our economy

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Easing child labor laws is bad for kids and our economy

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Steven Greenhouse, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, is the author of “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.” He wrote this column for the Los Angeles Times. Suddenly lawmakers in several states are rushing to relax child …