Economics
India Faces Lost Generation as Virus Pushes Children to Work
- Over 56 million children were out of school before the virus
- With labor shortage in cities, many are being pushed to work
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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India’s children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labor problem that was already one of the most dire in the world.