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An effort to expand the hours 14- and 15-year-old employees in Ohio can work was stymied Wednesday after Republican Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill passed with overwhelming GOP support.
A republican with a shred of sympathy for the poors. Thanks.
It must be nice being a republican governor. All you have to do is one or two un-shitty things per year and everyone credits you with traits like humanity and integrity.
I am not able to open the article but who is the author of the bill?
good, that mindset is crazy. How is someone supposed to be able to get up at 5/6 AM, go to school, get out around 2/3Pm, work until 9 and then somehow also be able to work on homework/projects while not sacrificing sleep, just to do it the next day.
for perspective even working until 7PM which is it’s current setup only gives a 10 hour window between shifts so you better hope homework and studying doesn’t take more than an hour or so.
When the leading argument for the change is “this will help current workforce needs” it’s clear student’s aren’t the intended benefactor here. It’s sacrificing future employee skills for short term benefits.
they don’t want children to go to school. they want uneducated population, since educated doesn’t vote red
But short term benefit make line go up. Line go up good.
Why are the kids working
From what I remember, the bill’s author said something like “children are helping support the household income, and this will let them do that more” and it’s like, they’re so close to finding the real problem (families can’t get by even on 2 incomes now), but instead of addressing that problem they just go “better exploit children of desperate families even more!”
They’re doing this shit in Arkansas and it’s pretty clear they want young folks skipping college, getting knocked up at 17, back in the yoke with a new little worker on the way. No time to think about anything but what you’re fed, always hungry and always grinding.
Bootstraps won’t pull themselves!
Because kids are easier to bullshiat into working around toxic chemicals and dangerous machines that can maim or kill them.
That headline is cursed
DeWine is one of the few Republicans I’ve managed to retain any respect for. Not much, mind you. But a little bit.
It’s hard to think of Republicans as anything other than racist, sexist, ____ist, christofascists cuz that’s the norm nowadays, but I recall a time when they were just stupid, not evil. Like, the bigwigs were still evil, but even they usually wrapped their bullshit in some plausible deniability. Today they skip all that and just jump straight to completely unabated evil.
Yep. I’d like to say that those days were when I was one, but knowing the young and unobservant version of me, that transition probably would’ve escaped me for a while.
He does a good thing about once per year. He’s been pretty shitty otherwise. Mainly approving all the recent gerrymandering.
Well, I guess I’m glad that he isn’t wasting his annual good thing for 2025.
Yeah he used to be considered pretty far right snd he’s not the one who changed
It’s nice to see someone still has a spine.
But the children yearn for the mines
Facts!…The Adults have started playing Vintage Story
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Gov. DeWine, you fool! Everyone knows the children yearn for titles such as Retail Sales Associate or Sandwich Artist. /s
Don’t worry Vivek will make it mandatory
