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    The Salt
    Cocoa producers of the Yakasse-Attobrou Agricultural Cooperative gather cocoa pods in a certified Fair Trade-label cocoa plantation in Adzope, Ivory Coast.
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    Fair Trade Helps Farmers, But Not Their Hired Workers

    Jul 01, 2019
    According to a new study of cocoa-producing cooperatives, Fair Trade certification boosts the income of small farmers, but those benefits aren't shared with their hired workers.
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    Goats and Soda
    A Bangladeshi child works in a brick-breaking yard in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 3, 2017. The broken bricks are mixed in with concrete. Typically working barefoot and with rough utensils, a child worker earns less than $2 a day.
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    New Numbers On Child Labor Are Not Encouraging

    Nov 17, 2017
    A report from the U.N.'s International Labour Organization looks at how many children work, what kind of jobs they perform — and how to stop it.
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    Kailash Satyarthi in Washington, D.C. in June 2017.
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    Nobel Peace Prize Winner's Message To America: 'All Children Are Our Children'

    Jun 25, 2017
    Kaiilash Satyarthi came to Washington to encourage the U.S. government to fight for the freedom of child laborers.
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    It Was The Best Of Fries, It Was The Worst Of Fries: Charles Dickens, Food Scribe

    Feb 07, 2017
    Charles Dickens, born Feb. 7, 1812, was likely inspired by his own hunger to write some of the finest descriptions of Victorian food and cooking that have ever been recorded in literature.
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    Babu, 8, works at a brick factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
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    Study: Child Laborers In Bangladesh Are Working 64 Hours A Week

    Dec 07, 2016
    A new report from the Overseas Development Institute finds that impoverished children are working long hours in violation of the country's labor laws.
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    FLDS Child Labor Trial Begins In Utah

    Jan 26, 2016

    A federal judge in Utah has started hearing evidence in a child labor case involving a Utah polygamous sect, including testimony from a former member who says she would have been kicked out of the group if she didn't work on a pecan harvest.

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