Statistics That Show Just How Out Of Whack American Work-Life Balance Is
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Julia Austin
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We start work (relatively) young
Perhaps nobody is pointing fingers at America for utilizing child labor, but it is worth noting that, compared to other countries, we fall somewhere in the middle on our minimum age to work. Teens can get to work at age 15 here. Sure, there are countries with very questionable limits on this (the minimum age in Sri Lanka is 10), but there are other countries that let kids be kids a bit longer, too. For example, the minimum age to work in China, Hungary, Sweden, and France is 16, and it jumps up to 18 in the Philippines and 21 in the United Arab Emirates.
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