Star Calls Cunningham's Move to Gut Missouri's Child Labor Laws "Bizarre"

In this weekend's "Capitol Watch" editorial: "Missouri Sen. Jane Cunningham just keeps digging a deeper hole with her attempts to defend her bizarre legislative attempt to gut the state’s child labor laws...Her bill would remove the age and hour restrictions on child labor, end inspections of workplaces that employ children and no longer require children to obtain permission from school in order to work. In her view, parents, not the state, should be deciding whether their young children should work. We think most parents actually appreciate rules that prevent the shift manager of the fast-food restaurant from insisting that 14-year-old Susie work overtime on a school night. We also think cooler heads in the legislature won’t be keen on making Missouri the first state to deregulate child labor. Or so we hope."