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Article: Emotions running high over minimum wage-related issues
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 19, 2007
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When U.S. lawmakers enacted national minimum wage legislation in 1938, it was far from pioneering. New Zealand and Australia established minimum pay legislation in the 1800s. In the U.S., the first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage law in 1933 was successful, but was subsequently ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1935 and abolished. National minimum wage law was established for good in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and was set at 250 per hour.
Nearly 70 years later, the issue of minimum wage still raises the blood pressure of those on both sides of the debate, and the volume of the "discussion" has only increased. Not only is a hike in the ...