Jalisco child labor rose 54% from 2019 to 2022, prompting DIF Jalisco to allocate 3.85 million pesos and launch a unified care and subsidy model to protect vulnerable children.
Child labor in Jalisco climbed by 54 percent between 2019 and 2022, with more than 281,000 children working in conditions deemed harmful under national standards. The latest Encuesta Nacional de Trabajo Infantil (ENTI) from INEGI tracked 181,902 minors in 2019 and 281,129 in 2022, signaling an urgent social challenge for the state government and civil society groups.
