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“This is a coordinated effort being led by a constellation of business lobbying groups and industry associations that would especially benefit from changes in child labor laws,” Nina Mast, a child labor expert at the EPI, told an Illinois state senate committee last year.

“This administration may be more open to looking at Department of Labor prohibitions on hazardous occupations for tens and to pull some of those back,” says Jennifer Sherer, an EPI analyst.

The most dangerous rollback, by EPI’s reckoning, was enacted by Iowa in 2023.

Natalie Perera, from the EPI, said it is the first time "a very clear link" has been made between how much children from the lowest income families attend school, and how far behind other pupils they have fallen.

Epi Sitanilei, a four-star edge rusher prospect from St. John Bosco, had earlier announced that he was headed to Ohio State instead of UCLA.