re: #211 Sol Berdinowitz

He is banking on our idyllic image of the kid with the paper route, helping out at the parents store/farm/gas station, etc., instead of seeing it as what it often is: an underpaid, exhausting job that interferes with the child’s ability to learn and study.

Yes, and it would apply until a person is 20, so you could conceivably have adults with adult responsibilities trying to get by on $5.25/hr, young parents, for instance, just starting out. It would have a negative effect on more than just very young teens.

This must be, as commenters have noted, ALEC legislation written to get labor costs in the US on the same level as China and developing countries.