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202, 221-222 (1982) found that there is no right to education under the US Constitution, but that denying public education to children living in the US without authorization violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment (The inestimable toll of [educational] deprivation on the social, economic, intellectual, and psychological wellbeing of the individual, and the obstacle it poses to individual achievement, make it most difficult to reconcile the cost or the principle of a status-based denial of basic education with the framework of equality embodied in the Equal Protection Clause.)

[361] Human Rights Watch, Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture , May 2010, (accessed February 3, 2014)

15 The city also heavily taxes tobacco products

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