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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. This is a proposed fine.
  2. "Mar-Jac Poultry's estimated annual revenue is currently $227.1M per year. Mar-Jac Poultry's estimated revenue per employee is $337,500" https://growjo.com/company/Mar-Jac_Poultry meaning that this proposed fine is less than the income this child generated for them.
  3. The child was hired by Onin Staffing, and there is no proposal to fine them. "Onin Staffing's estimated annual revenue is currently $235.9M per year." https://growjo.com/company/Onin_Staffing
  4. This is murder.
  5. This is the fault of Republicans.
  6. They're good with that.
[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why are there even kids working there? How old was this "teen"? What is wrong with the USA (rethorical question)?

Your numbers (i assume correctness) are making it even more worse. Disgusting even. That's like fines not bound to income. A major kick in the nutsack for the poor and a slightly more expensive, but totally neglectable, parking-ticket for the rest.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Many of them are immigrant children.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis

CNN obviously won't identify the child, but I would not be at all surprised if the child was an immigrant.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He told me that he called and asked for help and he thought at least maybe the police would come and check out the house, somebody might come and knock on the door and instead nothing happened. He ended up escaping eventually on his own. When I asked Health and Human Services about this, they told me that yes, they did not have a policy of calling these children back or going out once they were contacted.

Patently HHS didn't think it was important to follow up on phone calls they receive. WTF?

Adam Conover also has a video breaking down the issue.

https://youtu.be/_ve6BqXzbjw

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which would exactly change what? Still a teen that shouldn't work in such a place. Maybe an hour a day filling shelfs in a supermarket. Not working at a deboner in a soul-crusher.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

It doesn't change anything. It's an explanation of why the kids are hired. They're immigrants that came across the border illegally and are being exploited. They are being helped along by Republican state laws. It's all racism.