Still, this galvanizing employment trend seemingly has an underbelly, as the recent boost in child labor law violations highlights. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

One was a surge in child labor, as employers brought in the cheapest labor they could find during a tight job market. The Labor Department reported in October that it had found 5,792 minors who ...

While very much reduced in recent decades, child labor is still used in some restaurants ... these fines are appropriate or reflective of the facts," she wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle.