When eight-year-olds worked the streets: Lewis Hine's portraits of young workers in America

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

That's not the America anyone should want - even during those times, that was a stain - a blot - showing how little America cared about the struggles people go through.

Stripping a child of opportunity and forcing on them a burden that would go on to shape their adult life with struggle and drudgery. Robbing them of health as the work ripped and tore at their young bodies.

No child deserves that.

No adult does either.

Not even now. With the 2 & 3 jobs some must take to keep a roof over their heads.

We know better, yet some in government still tell the lie that such a way of life builds character and affords opportunity for a better life.

There is no other life when you work 3 jobs. No chance for a better life because you're killing yourself simply trying to survive the life you have.