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==Exposing child labor== [[Image:Young worker in Merchants Mill.jpg|thumb|Young worker in a Merchants Mill]] According to the [[1900 US Census]], a total of 1,752,187 (about 1 in every 6) children under the age of sixteen were engaged in "gainful occupations" in the United States. This number represents a fifty percent increase from the 1,118,356 children working for wages in 1880.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/11/27/101350251.pdf|title=National Effort to Solve Child Labor Problem|access-date=2008-11-25|work=New York Times|date=1904-11-27}}</ref> This trend alarmed Americans who, while supporting the traditional role of children in agriculture, found the idea of American youth laboring for meager wages in industrial factories appalling. From 1909 to 1921 the NCLC capitalized on this moral outrage by making it the focal point of the NCLC campaign against child labor.<ref name="National Child Labor Committee"/>
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