On March 14, Mary Graw Leary, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, was quoted in an article published by Catholic Review. The article opened with a focus on Arkansas' revisions to child labor laws, and then shifted to child labor issues related to immigration and poverty nationwide.

Catholic Review
By: Kimberly Heatherington (OSV News)
Date: March 14, 2023
Catholic, labor leaders raise concerns as Arkansas revises child labor law

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Mary Leary, professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs at The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, told OSV News that globally companies resort to child labor in order to cut costs rather than make changes that would make these jobs “more attractive to the workforce.”

But Leary pointed out that one recent change to the U.S. “is this influx of extra-vulnerable migrant children.”

“These are children whose vulnerability is compounded. They are also driven by such severe poverty that they feel a desperate need to send money back home to keep their own families alive,” Leary said.
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