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2023 THEME
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The number of child workers has increased by 37% in the U.S. between 2015 and 2020, and there has been a 69% increase in children being illegally employed since 2018. There is a lack of comprehensive data about child labor injury rates across the 50 states. Some states also lack adequate child labor laws, including a lack of exclusion from high-risk industries like agriculture and work hour limits.
In this study we investigated the existing child labor laws by state and designed a child labor law (CLL) scale to compare reported injury rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the CLL scale. We hypothesized that states with better child labor laws would have lower reported injury rates in child and youth workers.
OUR PROGRAM
At UC Berkeley, faculty and students from across academic areas such as Law, Business, Medicine, Environmental Science, Technology, and Data Science will share expertise to find innovative solutions by problem-based/active learning, collecting data, and making analytical conclusions. As a participant, you could join them to learn techniques/concepts lead to understand cross-interdisciplinary phenomenon and solving problem in the real world. Attend classes/labs/field trips led by faculty from a variety of departments and learn to consider similar ideas from different academic perspectives, collaborating on a project and presenting your ideas to write a research paper under the supervision of researchers and faculty members.
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