Progressive Era/Keating-Owen Act 1916

            Progressive Era/Keating-Owen Act 1916
  Families coming from lower income households or of poverty tend to not excel or attend a place of education where better off families don't ever face this problem. 

  How a family who had the problem of financial issues would deal with it would simply be to send their child or children to work. No matter their age or education level they had reached, they would simply send them to the factory, someone's home to do the simple errands of the higher class family, or to send them to do something that would bring financial means to the family. This would cause the child to not attend school as they would be at work for 12 hours a day. When they were off of work was there time for school; no. These children had to hurry home to get sleep, eat what little dinner they would get, and maybe even fix the injuries they obtained in their place of work. 

  This problem truly came to the surface during the Gilded Age, but it is still present in the 21st century. In a recent article of 2015 it states," ... working full time can shrink the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the time available for studying and attending classes." In the Progressive Era a means to a stop was tried. This was known as the Keating-Owen Act of 1916. This act regulated child labor by making illegal the sale of goods produced by children under the age of fourteen. Yes, it didn't face the problem of children not attending school first hand, but it would keep business owners from hiring these children harder. Which this gave the families no choice, but to send their kids to school for a chance of higher education or break the law. Turns for a better were made, but the issue was at large. As only time would tell if and when these children would receive better education or an education at all!