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Your work ethic. maybe he was going to work his heinie off and had compromised health and worked himself to death. older males and females have succumbed to at much. >> may be but it shouldn't be on the employer. the employer is not there to be the watchdog and say don't work so hard. >> they see a kid working 24 hours a day. go home, take a day off. >> neil: how do you know they never told him that? >> we don't know that. >> neil: you're holding him out there as if they did. >> that's what started this. if they knew or should have shoe known the hours he worked and did nothing. >> as you were...

Those laws are tied to schooling. for example, kids' work permits often say that the number of hours and which hours kids are allowed to work for pay are different during the school year than they are during the summer or on holidays. the idea being that kids need time for school. after governor lepage took downtown mural depicting the bad old days of child laborers taking their iron lunch buckets into the sweatshops -- i'm guessing the one with the thimbles is work in some sort of textile environment. not sure. post a comment at maddow@msnbc.com. are we talking thimbles? after governor lepage...

After governor lepage took downtown mural showing those bad old days of child labor used to exist in maine governor lepage and the state's republican legislators this week made some great advances toward making maine more like those bad old days once again. right now if you are a kid working in maine even if you can only get a minimum wage job, you're still getting paid minimum wage. you're still getting paid 7.50 an hour. that's the minimum wage in maine. if republicans get their way, and it's starting to look this week like they're going to, if republicans get their way, if you are a kid in ...

Maddow@msnbc.com. are we talking themballs? after governor lepage took downtown mural showing those bad old days of child labor used to exist in maine governor lepage and the state's republican legislators this week made some great advances toward making maine more like those bad old days once again. right now if you are a kid working in maine even if you can only get a minimum wage job, you're still getting paid minimum wage. you're still getting paid 7.50 an hour. that's the minimum wage in maine. if republicans get their way, and it's starting to look this week like they'ring go to, if repu...

Day to do odd jobs around the house and he made $4,000 last year. now he has kids knocking down his door saying how do we become part of this problem? great to see these kids out there doing that. we do that on a daily base zblis we rent ourselves out. we hear from -- even within the newsroom, you know, we hear from parents all the time. i-can't get my kid out of the house. i can't get my kid working. what am i going to do? you see teens like this. i wish everybody would take on that work ethic. >> absolutely. don't forget, small businesses are the greatest employers, greatest employment creat...