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Topic"In 1935, the minimum hourly wage in the U.S. was set at 25¢.
Solar_Crimson
01/27/21 8:02:48 AM
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BlingBling22947 posted...
By this time in his administration, Roosevelt was accustomed to the cries of outrage from his opponents. The night before he signed the bill, he told Americans in one of his fireside chats, Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day tell you that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.

Americans must have forgotten.
All thanks to Reagan.

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