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accsys
Aug 28, 2018Explorer
2012Coleman wrote:
If you were getting paid $.50 per hour, you were being severely underpaid. Federal min wage in 1961 was $1.15 LINK
$1.15 in 1961 had the same buying power as $9.51 in 2018 LINK
If you read the footnotes on the minimum wage table, you will see that that the 1938 bill only applied to very few interstate businesses. The 1961 bill added a few businesses but still didn't apply to the millions of mom and pop businesses like the drug store in Oklahoma I worked for.
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