On July 8th, ABC’s Nightline aired an incredible story about child slavery in Haiti. Reporter Dan Harris began his “unsettling experiment” one morning in Manhattan and within 10 hours, he had purchased a 10 year old girl in Haiti for $150. You can read or watch the rest of the report online. Also, Dateline NBC [...]
On the Becker-Posner Blog, Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and continues to teach at the University of Chicago Law School and Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also teaches at the University of Chicago routinely take a dueling-banjos approach to the most interesting and often controversial ideas [...]
The New York Times reports on a growing problem of child labor in China’s rapidly industrializing economy - Child Labor Rings Reach China’s Distant Villages:
The mud and brick schoolhouses in the lush mountain villages of this remote part of southwestern China are dark and barebones in the best of times. These days, they also lack [...]
