Why Is There a Minimum Wage?

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Check out Two Cents! https://www.youtube.com/TwoCentsPBS The Minimum Wage is a wildly important and contentious aspect of modern economic life. But whether you believe it needs to go up or be eliminated altogether there’s an important question to ask, why does it exist at all? Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Linda Huang and Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited: https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-history-minimum-wage https://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/minimum-wage-since-1938/ https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/ https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/flsa1938 https://abcnews.go.com/News/history-us-minimum-wage/story?id=38199944 https://minimum-wage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006456 https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage Minimum Wages by David Neumark and William L. Wascher https://www.history.com/news/the-strike-that-shook-america-100-years-ago https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Industrial-Recovery-Act https://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/ https://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/05/25/extra-extra-read-all-about-newsboys-strike-1899 https://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/minimum-wage-since-1938/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/low-wage-workers-across-country-protes

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