Not really an extraordinary claim that right wing policy would dictate more child labor given red states have lowered age restrictions for working in red states.
See:
“Despite strong evidence that dangerous child labor can harm young workers, the far-right authoritarian playbook known as Project 2025 proposes eliminating protections against hazardous work for children. Specifically, Project 2025 calls on the U.S. Department of Labor to “amend its hazard-order regulations to permit teenage workers access to work in regulated jobs with proper training and parental consent.” In plain English, revising these “hazard-order regulations” means letting teens work in hazardous jobs. Exploiting child labor sounds extreme because it is extreme—and politicians mostly in far-right states have recently worked to institute these changes. In the past three years alone, “28 states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws, and 12 states have enacted them.” Republican legislators in Iowa passed a law in direct violation of federal child labor laws to permit 14-year-olds to perform assembly line work in
factories and meatpacking facilities.”
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-exploit-child-labor-by-allowing-minors-to-work-in-dangerous-conditions-with-fewer-protections/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20Project%202025%20calls%20on,teens%20work%20in%20hazardous%20jobs.
