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My Mother Refused to Pay My 13-Year-Old for Six Weeks of Work. Forty-Eight Hours Later, the Labor Board Knocked.

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I’ll do chores or something. I really, really want this.”

I looked at her—thirteen years old, skinny and all elbows, still growing into her face. She had paint on her cheek and a smudge of graphite on her knuckles. She’d started calling herself an “artist in training” in her social media bios a few months ago, saying it as a joke, but every time she continue reading …

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