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“Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Facts Law Pay Class Periods Increase Raises Decades Minimum Working Class Minimum Wage

Author:Bill Pascrell

“Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.”

Wells Law Social Levels Innovation Well Being Minimum Tolerable Social Innovation

Author:Paul Dickson

“To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.”

Should Believe Ends States Law Nations Industry Ought Standards Bases Paid Determine Various Minimum Wages Sanctions Minimum Wage Massachusetts Living Wage

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.”

Years May Law Courses Cases Periods Constitution Court Faults Decades Reform Amendments Minimum Judicial Minimum Wage Constitutional Amendments Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.”

Book Law Effects Convinced Minimum Minimum Wage Statutes

Book:An economist's protest: columns in political economy

Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy

“The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .”

Said Shows Law Evil Cutting Expression Masters Lovers Holy Tyrants Preacher Minimum Show Me Honored Rubbish Necessary Evil

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.”

People Real Law Results Pay Lows Illegal Zero Minimum Legislation Employers Minimum Wage Very Clever

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.”

Mind Matter Enough Law Lost Stuff Loses Grief Gone Assuming Careful Minimum Purses Wallets

Author:Jennifer James