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Federal officials say two 10-year-olds are among the 300 children who worked at a McDonald’s restaurants in Kentucky with no or little pay

The Labor Department found more than 300 minors working illegally at McDonald’s restaurants operated by three franchisees.

A regulation allowing pension managers to weigh ESG factors will stand, after the House did not override Biden's veto.

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency Monday, keeping in place a Labor Department regulation allowing retirement plans to consider environmental and social factors in their investment decisions.

Conservative groups have derided ESG as "woke capitalism" and have set out to dismantle it.

President Joe Biden has issued the first veto of his presidency as he seeks to block Republican-led efforts in Congress to overturn a Labor Department rule allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and governance factors when making investment decisions

President Joe Biden vetoed an attempt to block pension investment managers from weighing environmental and social justice factors.

The American job market has once again confounded expectations