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      -53 months ago

      The evidence that minimum wage was intended to be a living wage is that FDR said it was. Have you started believing everything a politician says?

      There is no external evidence to support FDRs claim. Looking at the Fair Labor Standards Act contradicts his claim, $0.25 an hour is not enough, the act passed easily and $0.35 could have been set if they wanted to.

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          -53 months ago

          Minimum wage never fulfilled its claimed goal. FDR had opportunities to make minimum wage a living wage but never did, the very next year minimum wage was raised to $0.30 per hour, still below a living wage.

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              -53 months ago

              Politics are gonna politic, and there’s always going to be someone against something, even if I’d seems like a no-brainer.

              If the intent was a living wage then why did FDR champion the $0.25 bill instead of the AFL backed $0.40 bill? He had veto proof majority for its passing. The politics was pretending minimum wage wage was intended to be a living wage.

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                  -43 months ago

                  Then why was he able to get it to $0.30 a year later or $0.40 in 1945?

                  You still have not provided any supporting evidence that the minimum wage was intended to be a living wage, all you have is some guy said it so it must be true.