Most successful adults began working as teenagers.
Perhaps they delivered newspapers or manned the till at a McDonald's. Perhaps they spent weeks in the summer detasseling corn or their Saturdays directing cars into parking spots before college football games. But whatever they did, all those people who worked as teenagers learned at a young age an important lesson for adulthood: that they needed to work, earn, and be responsible for making their own way in life.
BIDEN ISN'T EVEN TRYING TO SECURE THE BORDER
Arkansas's Republican legislature and governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, should be commended for passing a bill that makes it easier for teenagers, 14- and 15-year-olds, to work.
Several liberals are freaking out over the new law, but it is or should be a model for national child labor policy. This is not about sending 8-year-olds into coal mines. The law brings Arkansas into line with several other states, not all of them Republican. Colorado, for example, has a similar law, as do Arizona and Texas. Many states require permits for 14- or 15-year-olds to take part-time jobs. But it is not obvious how these permits benefit the teenagers in question.
It is sometimes claimed that permitting allows a state to verify each child's age, but birth certificates already do this. Moreover, any prospective employee who can write his or her birth date on a permit application already has to put the same information on the federal W-9 tax form. There is nothing magical about a state...
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