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Minimum Wage - United States Department of Labor
The table of federal minimum wage rates under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 - 2009 is also available in a PDF Version. In order to view and/or print PDF .
http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm

History -- Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - United States ...
On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to avoid pocket vetoes 9 days after Congress had . It provided for a 40-hour workweek, set a minimum weekly wage of $13 in the .
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm

FLSA - United States Department of Labor
The federal minimum wage provisions are contained in the FLSA. . The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (PDF) - Establishes minimum wages, overtime pay, .
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-flsa.htm

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Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The minimum wage was re-established in the United States in 1938 (pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act), once again at $0.25 per hour ($3.77 in 2009 .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

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Minimum Wage. $0.7. 5. $0 .25. $0 .3. 0. $0 .4. 0. $1 .00. $1 .1. 5. $1.25. $1.40. $1.60. $2 .0. 0. $2.10. $2.90. $3.8. 0. $4.75. $5 .85. $7 .25. $3 .35. $3.1. 0. $2.3. 0 .
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National minimum wage law enacted, June 24, 1938 - Andrew Glass ...
Jun 24, 2011 . On this day in 1938, a federal minimum wage went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Congress initially set the wage at 25 cents an .
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57629.html

Minimum Wage Question and Answer | Raise The Minimum Wage
When was the federal minimum wage enacted? Why was it enacted? The federal minimum wage was signed into law in 1938 by President Franklin Roosevelt, .
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A Brief History of the Minimum Wage - TIME
Jul 24, 2009 . The first federal minimum-wage law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, with a 25-cent-per-hour wage floor and a 44-hour workweek .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912408,00.html

The Federal Minimum Wage and Average Hourly Earnings of ...
Specialist in Labor Economics. Domestic Social Policy Division. Summary. The federal minimum wage, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, .
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1237&context=key_workplace

The Low-Wage Labor Market: Does the Minimum Wage Help or Hurt ...
Jan 14, 2000 . The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that mandated a federal minimum wage was adopted by the Congress in 1938. Since then, the federal .
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/lwlm99/turner.htm

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Minimum Wage - Federal and State Minimum Wage Rates
The minimum wage was enacted in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The first minimum wage was .25 an hour. Federal Minimum Wage Rate .
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/minimumwage/a/minimumwage.htm

What US president raised the minimum wage of 25 cents to $l.25?
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act reinstated the same 25 cent federal minimum wage, along with the legal mechanisms necessary to adjust .
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question4418.html

Debate: Minimum wage in the United States - Debatepedia
Apr 23, 2010 . The US minimum wage was established in the US in 1938, after being first passed in 1933 and then ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme .
http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

Raising the Minimum Wage: Another Empty Promise to the Working ...
Since its inception in 1938, increases in the federal minimum wage have become an increasingly weak mechanism for addressing the problem of poverty in .
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Federal Minimum Wage plus 2012 State Minimum Wage Increase ...
At this time, many minimum wage state laws will also change. In cases where an employee is subject to both state and federal minimum wage laws, the .
http://www.laborlawcenter.com/t-federal-minimum-wage.aspx

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Fair Labor Standards Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and . History of the federal minimum wage in real and nominal dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act

Graphs of the US minimum wage from 1938
May 8, 2007 . Graphs of the US minimum wage from 1938 to the present. If you take inflation into account, it's been falling pretty steadily since 1968. But also .
http://kottke.org/07/05/graphs-of-the-us-minimum-wage-from-1938

Minimum Wages - The MIT Press
Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 .
http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262141024

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U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division (WHD ...
The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, .
http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/

History of the Minimum Wage
The minimum wage began in 1938, as a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act. (FLSA). This law . Since then, it has remained unchanged at a federal level.
http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org/past_projects/minimumwagetoolkit.pdf

Purpose of a Minimum Wage | Small Business - Chron.com
The U.S. has implemented a federal minimum wage since the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, according to the Department of Labor. Although .
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/purpose-minimum-wage-2770.html

Raise the minimum wage | Crain's New York Business
Feb 5, 2012 . Businesses employing many minimum-wage workers tend to be in the . of a minimum wage, which has been a fixture in the U.S. since 1938 .
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120205/SUB/302059999

What is Minimum Wage?
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act reinstated the same 25 cent federal minimum wage, along with the legal mechanisms necessary to adjust it over time.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-minimum-wage.htm

Nine Years of Neglect: Federal Minimum Wage Remains ...
Aug 31, 2006 . The federal minimum wage has remained at $5.15 an hour since September 1, . Nonetheless, from 1938 to 1981, they did occur with enough .
http://www.cbpp.org/8-31-06mw.htm

Current Massachusetts Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage provisions are contained in the Fair Labor Standards . Federal. Current dollars. Federal. Constant-. 2008 dollars1. 1938. $0.25 .
http://lmi2.detma.org/lmi/pdf/MinimumWage.pdf

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How Well Can You Live on Minimum Wage?
Apr 5, 2012 . Since being established at 25 cents in 1938 under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the federal minimum wage has been raised only 22 times.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/04/05/How-Well-Can-You-Live-on-Minimum-Wage.aspx

Minimum Wage Regulation
By far the best-known example of minimum wage legislation is the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This was preceded in the U.S. by more limited .
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/palgrave.htm

Federal Minimum Wage Rates: 1938 to 2009 data set | Infochimps
Overview. The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and .
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/federal-minimum-wage-rates-1938-to-2009

Minimum Wage -- It Just Doesn't Add Up
Aug 29, 2001 . The federal minimum wage, first enacted in 1938, was meant to put a firm floor under workers and their families, strengthen the depressed .
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0829-08.htm

Raising the Minimum Wage in Hard Times
Oct 27, 2010 . hard times of the Great Depression.1 When the federal minimum wage was established in 1938, the unemployment rate was still a very high 19 .
http://letjusticeroll.org/sites/default/files/resources/Raising%20Min%20Wage%20in%20Hard%20Times%20Oct%2027%202010.pdf

he Minimum Wage: Two Generations of Neglect Add Up
Although a three-step raise in the Federal minimum wage that ended in July, 2009 is . Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938-2009 ;” .
http://umaine.edu/ble/files/2011/01/The-Minimum-Wage.pdf

When the Minimum Wage Really Bites: The Effect of the U.S.-Level ...
6.1 The Minimum Wage in Puerto Rico. The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA) established minimum wages in. Puerto Rico as it did in the United States .
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6909.pdf

Employment Effects of Minimum Wages, 1938-50
increases in the federal minimum wage. These gross changes in . 2 U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour and . wage increases in 1938-40 and 1950. In .
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1827397

minimum wage — Infoplease.com
Although federal minimum-wage laws were at first held unconstitutional in the . in the passage (1938) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which set minimum .
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0833308.html

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Recommended Books - The Minimum Wage
Perhaps the most frequently cited book in the minimum wage debate is Myth and . Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program by . wage from early in the 20th century to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 .
http://www.raiseminwage.org/id22.html

Making the New Deal Stick The Minimum Wage and American ...
Mar 1, 2012 . for the emergence of the conservative coalition majority, adopt a federal min- imum wage in 1938? Why did later enacting coalitions in .
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00355.x/pdf

Federal Minimum Wage - US Government Info - About.com
The federal minimum wage is established by and regulated under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (the FLSA). In its final form, the act applied to industries .
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blminimumwage.htm

WHO EARNS MINIMUM WAGE IN UTAH? AN ANALYSIS OF THE ...
The debate over the minimum wage has continued since before its inception in 1938 through the present with legislation entered into U.S. Congress and several .
http://www.cppa.utah.edu/publications/workforce/Minimum%20Wage%20Report.pdf

No Longer Getting By—An Increase in the Minimum Wage Is Long ...
May 11, 2004 . The federal minimum wage, originally passed as part of the Fair Labor . of government inaction since the minimum wage was enacted in 1938.
http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp151/

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History of the United States Minimum Wage | Minimum-Wage.org
History of the federal minimum wage, minimum wage jobs, and labor law in the . Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into law in early 1938.
http://www.minimum-wage.org/history.asp

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Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) - eNotes.com
Children's Hospital, the court voided a District of Columbia minimum wage law . for us," a spokesman for the American Federation of Labor called it, even after .
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