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Bolivia child labor

Julio SegadorJanuary 2, 2015

Poverty forces one out of three children in Bolivia to work instead of going to school. Parliament has recently passed a law which permits even ten year olds to work under certain conditions, hoping the bill will help fight poverty. Child workers supported the law, but critics argue that parents should be paid decent wages instead of having to send their kids to work.

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