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The Child Labor Epidemic

Child labor affects more than 250 million children in our world today. Most of these countries are third-world, but what is not known is that child labor is still happening in the U.S. In North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia kids 15 and under are being put to work in tobacco fields. Working in such conditions has lead to children […]

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Child Labor

Child Labor affects over 250 million children worldwide. Kids who range from under the age of thirteen to seventeen years old, are being exposed to various disease like Green Tobacco Sickness, experience intense heat and sun exposure, and also exposure to pesticides. Child labor is affecting the development of the future of our world and economy, affecting children mentally, physically, […]

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Different Aspects of Child Labor

In a study published by the University of the Punjab, Centre for South Asian Studies, it was concluded that less education, need for extra money and the lack of poor monitoring by the government are important factors and reasons of child labor in Pakistan. The study also implies that potential implementation of the government’s laws and proper monitoring is a […]

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Child Labor in Our World

According to Mexico: Child labour and the perils of a lost education.” by Al Jazeera America, 2.5 million kids are working in Mexico and 870,000 of those kids are under the age of 13. The global number of children in child labor has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half however, […]

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Child Labor

Child labor in our world today incorporates 250 million children worldwide. Child labor occurs when “people under fifteen years of age are forced to be employed because their parents either cannot work or do not make enough money to support their families on their own” (as cited from a California State essay, http://www.csun.edu/~ss63082/child.html ). Around 120 million of these children […]

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The Moon and It’s Slow Disappearance

Having curiosity of how the world would belike  if the moon disappeared, I read various articles about moon disappearance-some hypothetical and probable theories that could happen based on current events.  Dr. Maggie Aderon-Pocock wrote in a BBC article  “The Moon continues to spin away from the Earth, at the rate of 3.78cm (1.48in) per year, at about the same speed […]

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