Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: The Robber Barons II

Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Robber Barons II

Tell me does it seems like we are going backwards? Backward to the time of the Roaring Twenties and then further back to the era of the Robber Barons what do they have in common?

There are two things in common with back then and now. First all three eras started wit the concentration of wealth! Second, the end of the Robber Barons era and the end of the "Great Depression" resulted in creation of regulatory agencies. Laws like the children labor laws were created to stop young children from working in factories and on farms. The child safety laws did allow younger children to work on farms then in factories.

But now they want to repeal the age limits to work on the farms to make it even young!

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
CNN
By Jordan Valinsky
March 25, 2025

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.

The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.

The bill passed through the Florida Senate’s Commerce and Tourism committee on Tuesday with five votes in favor of the loosened child labor restrictions and four against them. The bill will pass through two other relevant committees before being put to a vote with the full Florida Senate.

We are now entering the second era of the Robber Barons!

Updated: 5:00PM

1 comment:

Richard Nelson3/28/25, 8:33 AM
So MAGA and ALL are their own worse enemies. GOOD!! Another chip off the block of fascism. If the hurricanes don't get them their hate will.
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