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Child labor is still a problem in many countries around the world.
Many of the products we purchase in the United States are produced by children working under conditions even worse than those Lyddie endured. Hundreds of thousands of children are kept in virtual slavery working just to stay alive. In this assignment you will be writing a newspaper editorial about the problem of child labor and what is and might be done about it. You will use examples gathered from online sources as well as the descriptions of child labor from the novel Lyddie. The Process Using the Internet and any other sources, you will research child labor in this and other countries.