Comicomment 丨Beneath the U.S. 'human rights table': The tears of child labor

More than a century ago, in 1906, American poet Edwin Markham drew attention to the plight of child workers in his work The Children in the Loom. Yet the problem he described has not disappeared. Today, child labor remains a troubling reality in the United States, where cases of illegal child employment continue to surface with alarming frequency. Children represent the future and hope of humanity. They deserve protection, education, and opportunity—not exploitation.