National Consumers League
For confidence and safety in the marketplace. NCL is the nation's pioneering consumer organization, founded in 1899, to protect and promote the rights of consumers and workers. The mission of the National Consumers League is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. We are the nation's oldest consumer organization. NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information.www.nclnet.org
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Sep 21, 2026
John GreenHOST
And many women realize that being the primary consumers who did the shopping for the home gave them powerful leverage to bring about change.
John GreenHOST
Chief among these was Florence Kelly, a college-educated woman who, after participating in a number of progressive reform causes, came to head the National Consumers League.
John GreenHOST
The league sponsored boycotts and shaped consumption.
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Janet WedgeNARRATOR
This was in a town in which there were comparatively few cases of extreme poverty.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
The degradation of motherhood, the damnation of the next generation before it is born, is exposed in all its catastrophic misery in the reports of the National Consumers League.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
In her report of living conditions among night-working mothers in thirty-nine textile mills in Rhode Island, based on exhaustive studies, Mrs. Florence Kelly describes the normal life of these women.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
When the worker, cruelly tired from ten hours' work, comes home in the early morning, she usually scrambles together breakfast for the family, eating little or nothing herself, and that hastily she tumbles into bed, not the immaculate bed in an airy bedroom with dark shades, but one still warm from its night occupants in a stuffy little bedroom darkened imperfectly, if at all.
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Janet WedgeNARRATOR
A native mother reported that she gave her two-weeks-old baby ice cream, and that before his sixth month, he was sitting at the table, eating everything.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
This was in a town in which there were comparatively few cases of extreme poverty.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
The degradation of motherhood, the damnation of the next generation before it is born, is exposed in all its catastrophic misery in the reports of the National Consumers League.
Janet WedgeNARRATOR
In her report of living conditions among night-working mothers in 39 textile mills in Rhode Island, based on exhaustive studies, Mrs. Florence Kelly describes the normal life of these women.
John BreoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can't do that anymore.
Brendan CullertonCORRESPONDENT
John Breo with the National Consumers League says since the initial changes, air travel has shifted to more of a class system on security with programs like TSA PreCheck and Global Entry.
John BreoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In many ways, the flying experience over the past 25 years has begun to mimic the way you feel the first time you get into the airport, getting in all these different lines, being segmented according to how much you're willing to pay.
Brendan CullertonCORRESPONDENT
Over the past few years, changes to technology have shrunk wait times going through TSA.