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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Back on topic, here's my view on minimum wage, it was never meant to be a sustainable, living wage.
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This is entirely wrong and shows ignorance of history. Here's what President Franklin Roosevelt said about the minimum wage when he passed it as part of the New Deal (large portions of which were subsequently copied by Canada and other nations) back in the 1930s:
"It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living."
Source:
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html