National Child Labor Committee

Background Substance abuse has been called an “urgent and growing threat”. This threat to our nation’s public health is a crisis of epidemic proportions. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans used illicit drugs. Some sources approximate 6.8 million Americans engage in non-medical prescription drug abuse (Abramowitz, 2014). A diverse cross-section of Americans from every region, state, background, and walk of life are touched by this plague. The United States Department of Justice…

Friday. The Reconstruction was a period from 1865-1877, after the Civil War, in which the federal government prepared for the Southern states to come back to the Union. The Reconstruction was a time where the nation, as a whole, needed new ways of labor to rebuild its economy after the Civil War. As the new economy was building, it opened many opportunities for manipulation and scandals. The Crédit Mobilier Scandal, the Tweed Ring in New York, and Black Friday were three scandals during the…

Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Abraham was a very avid reader during his childhood. Many people viewed Abraham as “lazy” since he did not like the hard labor work that had to do with the frontier life. Many people though that Abraham did these things to get out of doing the hard labor work that everyone else had to do. Abraham did not have a very easy childhood with him being 9 and his mother dying at the age of 34. This created even more tension with his dad who…

Political Parties in the United States Political parties have been a crucial part of American government since the ratification of the constitution in 1788. These groups of like-minded people keep the government organized, and help to inform the public on various political issues. Despite the fact that political parties are not explicitly mentioned in the constitution, they still hold a great deal of power. The importance of the Democratic Party , Republican Party, and the Working Families…

she didn’t get any sleep the night before. Once my mom noticed that she was having contractions five minutes apart, she knew for sure she was in labor with her second child. So, after my cousin’s confirmation concluded, my parents drove 30 minutes to Littleton, Colorado, to Littleton Hospital; they arrived around 4 P.M. After about four hours of labor, my mom gave birth at 8:12 P.M., on May 2, 1999, to a blue-eyed baby girl. I weighed eight pounds and three…

as an intolerant belligerent by his peers, Burleson canceled mailing privileges for a number of groups he considered radical or revolutionary (Greenberg par. 8). These included left wing magazines such as, The Liberator, The Masses, and socialist labor organizations such as the IWW (Greenberg par. 9). With almost complete autonomy, under his direction nearly every newspaper, magazine, booklet or any other printed matter was screened and censored for the remotest criticism of the war. Even…

laws as a Virginia legislator that would have banned or severely restricted blacks from entering or living in Virginia, and wrote legislation that would have banished children whose father was of African origin and exiled any white woman who had a child with a black man.…

The historic gender wage gap has existed for numerous years and continued to alter the lives of people from all walks of life. The gender wage gap is influenced by discrimination, but other factors also contribute to the gap. All ages are susceptible to exposure to the wage gap. A grandmother, father, and teenage son could all be experiencing the gap in various ways at the same time. Although the gap can be experienced at any age, the gap increases with age (2). Job choice is a contributing…

were seen as a source of labor and not as much as children. The only time the mother actually cared for her children was when they were around the age of three to seven, some only cared for them till they were weaned then the father did everything. This greatly differs from most families now days. One similarity from then to now is the possible age gap between children. Even in the seventeenth-century a puritan couple who had a twenty year childbearing period could have a child who is grown and…

Currently in China, for example, minimum wage should be no lower than 40% of the average wage for any particular area. In Guangzou and Shenzhen, the first cities that were legally allowed to approach foreign big businesses for investment, the minimum wage to average wage percentage is the lowest in the country. While this may reflect the prosperity of the rest of China, this is unlikely, as it is estimated that 200 million people across China live in poverty. Instead, this is likely to be…