Today’s news reported that Apple found they employed only .004% children in their workforce, including none in final assembly. Sounds good, especially for such a huge corporation. However, this doesn’t tell the real story: what’s going on with Foxconn, their supplier, and its suppliers. One Chinese circuit-board-parts supplier uses 74 kids under age 16. Parents forging papers to say their kids are older is a common practice. For more details, go to http://news.yahoo.com/apples-child-labor-problem-runs-deep-141954177.
Apple is trying. I’ll give them credit for that. But they need to solve the problem in the 5% of their factories that they audited that use child labor and go deeper into the supply chain to ensure that children are not victimized just so we can have our i-everythings.