FDR may have tried to frame it that way in 1938 but 25 cents an hour was not a living wage then, either. Not really:
As others have rightly pointed out, the twenty-five-cent minimum wage passed at the time only amounted to the equivalent of a $4.54 per hour minimum wage is 2019 dollars. This wage is enough to avoid starvation but would obviously fall short of the kind of lifestyle proponents of a $15 per hour minimum wage advocate for today.
It’s true that the minimum wage is a not a living wage. I don’t know when it ever was.
At its inception.
FDR may have tried to frame it that way in 1938 but 25 cents an hour was not a living wage then, either. Not really:
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