- More states are joining the trend of letting minors legally serve alcohol and bartend.
- In April, Iowa’s senate voted to pass a bill that would allow teenagers to serve alcohol.
- Legislators in Wisconsin are pushing to lower the alcohol service age from 18 to 14 years old.
Bars in various states across the country may be staffed by high schoolers as more lawmakers and businesses push to lower the legal age to serve alcohol and bartend.
There are at least nine states — including Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Idaho — that have enacted or introduced laws that would allow minors ages 14 to 17 to serve alcohol, according to a report from Economic Policy Institute.
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