Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and ...

Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.

The Fair Labor Standards Act set a minimum wage of twenty-five cents per hour, with a series of scheduled increases to raise it to forty cents by 1945.

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum ...

tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."2 In light of the social legislation of 1978, Americans ...

Message to the Congress Transmitting Proposed Employment ...

In 1938, however, the Federal government imposed a Federal minimum wage applicable to firms engaged in interstate commerce. Initially this meant that the ...

Speech on the Fair Labor Standards Act | Teaching American History

If Congress, under this law, can fix minimum wage, it can fix maximum wage, and the price on all things in interstate commerce or having to do with interstate ...

Special Message to the Congress Presenting a 21-Point Program for ...

Our achievements in this field during the last seven years of establishing minimum wages have been gratifying; but we must continue to move forward, step by ...

What Did FDR Mean by a Living Wage? | Pepperdine Policy Blog

After congressional legislation that would allow the President to establish a national minimum wage ... minimum wages, to address economic ...

Weekly Address: Calling on Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage

This week, President Obama took action to lift more workers' wages by requiring that federal contractors pay their employees a fair wage of ...

Coalition Letter to Congress in Support of the Raise the Wage Act ...

The Raise the Wage Act will raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2024, then index the minimum wage so that it continues to rise along ...

GRADUALLY RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15

GRADUALLY RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15: GOOD FOR WORKERS, GOOD FOR BUSINESSES, AND GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY116th Congress (2019-2020). House Committee Meeting.

Labor Leaders Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage

The Raise the Wage Act will increase the pay and standard of living for nearly 28 million workers across this country. Raising the minimum wage ...

Message to Congress on the Gains under N.R.A.

The National Industrial Recovery Act was passed by the Congress in June, 1933, and the administrative machinery to carry it into effect was set up during the ...

Open Letter to Congress in Support of Raising the Federal Minimum ...

In order to set our country on the path to truly building back better, we are urging Congress to pass a $15 minimum wage for all workers as part ...

A history of the federal minimum wage - Economic Policy Institute

The minimum wage is a New Deal era policy established initially through the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). The original bill set a ...

FDR's Statements on Social Security

ADDRESS TO ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC SECURITY ON THE PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SECURITY. -- NOVEMBER 14, 1934. 6. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ...

Raise the Wage - Obama White House

Raising the minimum wage nationwide will increase earnings for millions of workers, and support the local economies where they live, work and spend their ...

Fair Labor Standards Act Signed - This Month in Business History

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) includes provisions on several labor related provisions including the creation the right to a minimum wage, overtime pay.

How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect ...

This interactive tool—developed and updated by the Congressional Budget Office—allows users to explore the effects of policies that would ...

Text - H.R.582 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Raise the Wage Act

To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ...

Ninth Circuit Says Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Is Unlawful

Its minimum wage was set at $10.10 per hour. This was the first time that a president had ever established a minimum wage for federal ...