Newt Gingrich: 'Kids shouldn't work in coal mines'

Newt Gingrich: 'Kids shouldn't work in coal mines'

Newt Gingrich does not want to send your children into the coal mines.

So he said on WNYM this morning, telling radio host Curtis Sliwa that when he suggested putting kids to work in their schools, he wasn't thinking of the Dickensian child-labor force his critics imagine.