Iowa Senate votes to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to serve alcohol

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Apr 18, 2023
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BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today.

The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.

The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.

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Now the bill moves to the Iowa House.

We recently investigated this bill, and uncovered that it began in the office of Gov. Kim Reynolds and was written by top corporate lobbyists led by the restaurant association.


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6:31 AM · Apr 18, 2023

[bullimiami]

1. These republicans must read dickens for their world view.

[Karadeniz]

2. Who would do such a thing???? No excuses!!!!

[Ray Bruns]

3. Allowing 16 and 17 year olds to serve alcohol. This will end well.

[maxsolomon]

4. It could end well. I was capable of it at my 1st restaurant job when I was 17.

It's only a glass of liquid. You're not supposed to drink customer's Iced Teas, either.

I surmise that, since they're not included in the bill's ages, 18 to 20 year olds can already serve alcohol in Iowa. They can't legally drink.

Will kids get access to alcohol? No doubt. If they're working in a restaurant that serves it, they already have access.

[Buckeyeblue]

16. I agree. I think the drinking age should be lowered to at least 18.

If you can vote, serve in the military, enter into a contract, etc, you should be able to drink, smoke and if it's legal in your state, smoke pot.

BTW, the fake IDs the 18-20 year olds have are crazy good. So they are doing all this anyway.

[Matthew28]

5. I wouldn't be against lowering the drinking age

it isn't like they aint getting it anyways and they can serve in uniform so why not let them drink?

[sarisataka]

7. How about smoking and carrying guns?

They do those as well. Might as well change the age of adulthood to 16 so they can at least vote as well.

[Matthew28]

8. yep,

They should also vote as their future and lives depend on it.

[LeftinOH]

6. And those 16/17 year olds will rigidly check id's for their friends

who come around, right?

[Phoenix61]

13. And that's why lots of restaurants want 21 y/o servers.

Because of course they don’t.

[Freethinker65]

9. So a 16 yo can serve alcohol at a bar? How about an adult dance club?

Conservative family values: exploiting teens, encouraging making minimum wage plus tips for pleasing inebriated adults.

And watch the same GOP gasp as fewer students meet academic standards, much less actually graduate from high school.

[Yavin4]

10. Relaxing child labor laws is an acknowledgment that these jobs are not paying enough to support

adults. These jobs require workers to get a housing, food, and transportation subsidy. Children are more likely to have this subsidy.

[Bettie]

11. They can also mistreat kids and no one will

say anything. Seriously, people here are awful.

[Yavin4]

12. Including sexual abuse.

A teen is less likely to report it.

[Phoenix61]

14. Child labor laws were not about protecting children.

They were about protecting labor. The push by the GQP to increase the hours/places children can work is their response to a tight labor market. So much for free market capitalism.

[betsuni]

15. Republicans: party of the working class! Republican voters must be happy to be getting

all this attention and help. I keep hearing that the white working class votes Republican because the Democratic Party are elites who "ignore" them. No wonder they keep voting for Republicans! It'll be just "Huckleberry Finn."