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The Harvest (Spanish: La Cosecha) is a 2010 documentary film about agricultural child labor in America.The film depicts children as young as 12 years of age who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year, subject to hazardous conditions: heat exposure, pesticides, and dangerous work.
Jobs and Powell had two more children, daughters Erin (b. 1995) and Eve Jobs (b. 1998), who is a fashion model. [287] The family lived in Palo Alto, California . [ 289 ] Although a billionaire, Jobs made it known that, like Gates, he had stipulated that most of his monetary fortune would not be left to his children.
A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States [1] and United Kingdom [2] whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Though boys were primarily children , elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were sometimes employed as breaker boys. [ 3 ]
In 1967 Congress passed new amendments requiring all women on Aid to Families with Dependent Children to enroll in job training programs. The only program available to welfare mothers on the Westside of Las Vegas , where Duncan lived, was a sewing class that met five days a week eight hours a day and paid $25 a week.
Then, in the Great Depression, owing to high unemployment, the idea for a 6-hour workweek came into focus. The first chassis on the assembly aisle at the Ford factory in Long Beach, California.
This Is America, Charlie Brown is an eight-part animated television miniseries that depicts a series of events in American history featuring characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired from 1988 to 1989 on CBS . [ 1 ]
In the lead-up to the election, pro-Trump groups seized on a video in which Biden called Emhoff “Kamala’s wife.” It was a flub made in earnest, but it succinctly encapsulated how Emhoff has ...
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and ...