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The Labor Department let its child-labor task force die as violations rose
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Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be connected to each of your senators. Ask them to cosponsor the CHILD Labor Act of 2026, which Sen. Patty Murray reintroduced in June 2026. Among other things, it would require the Labor Secretary to report to Congress every year on trends in work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths, the data gap GAO flagged in GAO-26-107722 and DOL rejected fixing. Also ask them to press DOL to restart the Interagency Task Force to Combat Child Labor.