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DEFENDING LAWS ON CHILD LABOR + smf’s 2¢

A reader writes to support Newt Gingrich's call to loosen child labor laws, but The Times' editorial board couldn't disagree more.

EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT IN THE LA TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/SSBX4W

Newly annointed GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich lamented that child labor laws unfairly keep children in poor neighborhoods from working as school janitors. (Cheryl Senter / Associated Press)

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November 26, 2011 | The Times' Nov. 23 editorial, "Clueless candidates," which criticized Newt Gingrich for his call to loosen child labor laws and allow kids to work as janitors at their schools, prompted reader Mike Gallagher to write the following defense of the former House speaker's proposal:

"I can only assume that the editor did not work as a child, unlike the children of most small-business