Presenting FORKS!: A new line of forklift safety equipment for children

CBS News:

The operator of a distribution center in Hebron, Kentucky, faces a $30,000 fine for employing children — ages 11 and 13 — to operate a forklift and pick up warehouse orders. The findings add to a trend of employers hiring more children illegally, with some of them working in dangerous jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Investigators discovered the children to be illegally employed in August at a Win.IT America Inc. distribution center in Hebron. The kids had worked there for months and had worked for more hours than legally allowed ...

If there's one trend that's stood out in the Trump and post-Trump years, it's that America's grade school-aged children yearn for jobs in heavy industry. Children might go to their parents complaining of all the attention a classmate has received after an accident in which cleaning equipment in a meat processing plant peeled the flesh of one arm to the bone. Or maybe you’ve seen children gaze longingly toward your town's industrial zone, impatient to begin a career at one of the three remaining factories, none of them unionized.

Most importantly, America’s children want to drive forklifts and receive the lowest possible wages to do it.