Says poor students could work as janitors
(NEWSER) - First, Newt Gingrich wanted Occupy protesters to "get a job." Now he says teenagers should do the same, even if it means discarding child labor laws, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on Friday, the presidential candidate said he would hire students in place of unionized school janitors. "The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they’d have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising," he said. (See the video.) More»
