In 1938 president Franklin D. Roosevelt created the minimum wage law called the Fair Labor Acts it was designed to show people their limits about working. He created the 40 hour work week, and $.25 an hour which would equal somewhere like $4.07 an hour today. By 1945 the wage was up to $.40 an hour and around this time they started prohibiting child labor. Roosevelt design this to help with the Great Depression trying to create more flow through the economy. Over the years minimum wage has gone up causing problems with work force between black and whites, men and women of getting paid the paid less than one another so mainly black and women had sit-in which lead to advantage the equal pay act of 1963 which stopped discrimination in the work place. They gave women maternity leave and same pay as anyone else. By 1996 min. wage was up to $5.15 an hour and has increased since then to catch up with the price of living. So the act of 1933 established our National Employment Services of USA. So thank Franklin D. Roosevelt who created min. wage if he didn’t any business could say “hey, you’re working a dollar and that guy can work for $.25 cents.” Because when that took place it also brought the equal pay rights in with it. So who knows what our country would be like without our min wage? Scary that’s what it would be!
Megan Huffman 