Cheetos Checks its Factories for Child Workers... Loses Half its Workforce Overnight

[Pete Ross Junior]

Cheetos Checks its Factories for Child Workers... Loses Half its Workforce Overnight (MSN)

n February 25th, The New York Times released a scathing report on the United States' migrant child labor epidemic. In the piece, Hannah Dreier documents the dramatically increasing number of child laborers working illegally for large corporations. After its publication, the Biden administration announced a crackdown on migrant child labor, putting pressure on corporations named in the article such as J. Crew, Ford, GM, Ben & Jerry’s, Walmart, Hearthside Food Solutions and more to combat the epidemic.

In a follow-up tweet, Dreier reported that Hearthside, the parent company of Cheetos, Nature Valley, Lucky Charms, had lost a significant percentage of its workforce after checking for child laborers.

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