Florida is looking to children as young as 14 to fill the vacancies left by the state’s crackdown on employers who hired undocumented workers. According to CNN, in a bill recently advanced through the Florida Senate’s Commerce and Tourism Committee, children as young as 14 years old would be able to work overnight shifts—even on school nights. Under the state’s current law, children are not allowed to work before 630 a.m. or past 11 p.m.; homeschooled 16- and 17-year-olds are allowed to work any hour of the day. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
