July 24, 2009, the minimum wage increases to $7.25 per hourhttp://www.laborlawcenter.com/t-federal-minimum-wage.aspxbefore the minimum wage law was passed, there was no minimum wage businesses had to pay kids or adults before 1938. and from 1938 til now.. minimum wage has increased a ton, and now-a-days, kids under 16 i think can get paid under minimum wage.. i thinkthere was no legal minimum wage - you paid people as little as you could get away with and still have them show uplasted from the 1890s to the 1920sEffective Date Hourly Wage10/24/1938 $0.2510/24/1939 $0.3010/24/1945 $0.4001/25/1950 $0.7503/01/1956 $1.0009/03/1961 $1.1509/03/1963 $1.2502/01/1967 $1.4002/01/1968 $1.6005/01/1974 $2.0001/01/1975 $2.1001/01/1976 $2.3001/01/1978 $2.6501/01/1979 $2.9001/01/1980 $3.1001/01/1981 $3.3504/01/1990 $3.8004/01/1991 $4.2510/01/1996 $4.7509/01/1997 $5.1507/24/2007 $5.8507/24/2008 $6.5507/24/2009 $7.25minimum wage lawhttps://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj10n3/cj10n3-7.pdfThe Women’s Trade Union Leaguehttp://www.nwhm.org/ProgressiveEra/workingwomen.htmlAdkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923): overturned a 1918 minimum-wage law in Washington, D.C. for women.theres also minimum wages for states too.Before this, companies and employers could pay employees anything they wanted (usually an extremely low or unfair wage) and many times, they refused to pay them at all by trumping up charges against them:---minimum pay of $11 a week... cut down to $4 and $5 and $6 a week.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAX/is_1_50/ai_78398531/pg_4/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._minimum_wages
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