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Working in the F ields

Working in the F ields. Samantha Crawford Marquesha Fultcher. In the United States, nearly 150,000 teens are migrant workers. They travel from field to field, picking crops. These teens work in the sweltering heat. They sacrifice their time and freedom. They do it to help their families.

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Working in the F ields

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  1. Working in the Fields Samantha Crawford MarqueshaFultcher

  2. In the United States, nearly 150,000 teens are migrant workers. They travel from field to field, picking crops. These teens work in the sweltering heat. They sacrifice their time and freedom. They do it to help their families.

  3. The U.S. Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which governs child labor in the United States, provides no minimum age for children working on small farms with their parent’s permission. Children may work for hire on any farm with parental consent from age 12, and there are no legal limits on the hours children can work in agriculture outside of school. Children are also free to do agricultural work that the U.S. Department of Labor deems “particularly hazardous” for children at the of age 16 (and at any age on farms owned or operated by their parents).

  4. The International Labour Organization estimates between 56 and 72 million African children work in agriculture, many in their own family farms. The seven largest cocoa-producing countries are Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Those last two together account for nearly 60 percent of global cocoa production.

  5. Migrant Education Program Description :Funds support high quality education programs for migratory children and help ensure that migratory children who move among the states are not penalized in any manner by disparities among states in curriculum, graduation requirements, or state academic content and student academic achievement standards. Funds also ensure that migratory children not only are provided with appropriate education services (including supportive services) that address their special needs but also that such children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet. Federal funds are allocated by formula to SEAs, based on each state’s per pupil expenditure for education and counts of eligible migratory children, age 3 through 21, residing within the state.

  6. http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/17/child-farmworkers-united-states-worst-form-child-laborhttp://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/17/child-farmworkers-united-states-worst-form-child-labor http://www2.ed.gov/programs/mep/index.html

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