HISTORY OF THE MINIMUM WAGE

In 1912, Massachusetts passed the first minimum wage laws. The federal minimum wage was introduced in the 1938 by Franklin Roosevelt. It was introduce by the Fair Labor Standards Act and this Act started the minimum wage. The minimum wage was 0.25 an hour on June 25th, 1938.

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When the federal minimum wage increase in 1956 it was below the dollar and on 1961 they raise it to $1.15. 

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On 1968 about 99 percent of people live on the poverty line working minimum wage jobs while 1 percent of the people working full time as a minimum wagers.

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The federal wage changed over the years. For example, on September 1997 the federal wage was $5.15, next on July 2007 it was $5.85, the year after that it was $6.55 on July 24, 2008, and later they changed the federal wage to $7.25. 

The minimum wage been raised 22 times from different presidents. 

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In 2012, about 1.6 million of hourly worker earn the federal wage.

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Currently, Washington D.C. and 19 states have a higher minimum wage than the federal level. Five states in the South have no minimum wage laws. Georgia and Wyoming have lower rates. Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina have no local laws. 

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Minimum wage jobs are jobs for many teenagers or college students because of their jobs do not require a lot of skill.

The purpose of the minimum wage is to afford the living wage and a base pay rate for employees, and it protect workers from unduly low pay. Teenagers don't have to worry about supporting their own because they live with their families. 

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Now since Donald Trump is president he is going to take on with the minimum wage.

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If you want to see the federal wage and the minimum wage of each state how it was in 1968 to 2017 look how much it increase on this link.

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If you want to see the timeline how the federal wage and the minimum wage is going throughout all the years you should really check this out. On here.