Defense attorney Howard Van Den Heuvel said Wilbur hired the teen, a high school dropout, as a way to help him. He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.
I’m sympathetic to this, but he shouldn’t have been working around dangerous machinery at all. Give the kid safer jobs, like fetching tools or mopping floors.
We need to revive the tax credit from COVID that heavily subsidized child rearing. The only situation where kids need to be working is if their family can’t put food on the table. It’s disgraceful that’s even the case in the US. The tax credit would hopefully eliminate the need for teenagers in poverty to support their family.
I’m sympathetic to this, but he shouldn’t have been working around dangerous machinery at all. Give the kid safer jobs, like fetching tools or mopping floors.
Or let kids be kids and not used as labor.
We need to revive the tax credit from COVID that heavily subsidized child rearing. The only situation where kids need to be working is if their family can’t put food on the table. It’s disgraceful that’s even the case in the US. The tax credit would hopefully eliminate the need for teenagers in poverty to support their family.
Ideally yes. In reality, we don’t have UBI yet.