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30 Sep 2015

Author:
Chris Lu, Deputy Secretary, US Dept. of Labor

3 Things You Can Do to Help End Child Labor

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[T]he Department of Labor released the 14th edition of the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor report, and we also have brought our flagship reports on child labor and forced labor into the digital age. Along with the report, we launched Sweat & Toil, a new smartphone app that puts information from our reports on global child labor issues in the palm of your hand. Just as importantly, we also threw open the gates to our massive reservoir of data on child and forced labor through our developer portal, putting over 1,000 pages of information on child labor and forced labor at the fingertips of creative people like you. We hope that these tools will amplify and maximize the impact of the work we are doing here at the department to address these issues. The key idea here is this: transformative change can come from anywhere. Government doesn’t have all the answers and is only part of the solution.