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Saturday, May 2, 2026

‘They’ve really gotta feel the pain,’ Rep. Scholten says of Grand Rapids company accused of hiring children f - MLive.com

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten says state and federal regulators must hold accountable Hearthside Food Solutions and other companies accused in a New York Times report of hiring migrant children as young as 13 for jobs that violate federal child labor law.

“They’ve really gotta feel the pain,” said Scholten, a former immigration attorney and first-term Democrat from Grand Rapids whose district is home to four plants operated by Hearthside. “Exploiting children cannot just be a cost of doing business for these companies.”

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