How wingnuts are putting teen workers in harm's way

Brad Greve said he and other expedition leaders repeatedly told the group of Boy Scouts to watch out for a section of stream where the water picked up speed and swept over rapids into the lake below. 
But two of the boys forgot the warnings and let their canoe drift perilously close to the drop-off anyway. Realizing their mistake in the nick of time, they paddled furiously against the stiffening current and made it to the streambank rattled but safe.
That near-accident a few years ago, Greve said, underscores the vulnerability of young teens. And it fuels Greve's anger at wingnuts who want to gut child labor laws and fill dangerous jobs with still-maturing high schoolers, even at the risk of working them to death.
Greve vehemently opposes a proposal moving through Iowa's wingnut-misled legislature that would allow 14-year-olds to work in industrial freezers, meatpacking plants, and industrial laundry operations. The legislation also would put 15-year-olds to work on certain kinds of assembly lines and allow them to hoist up to 50 pounds.
How wingnuts are putting teen workers in harm's way