And then, beginning in the eighteen-nineties, the Supreme Court struck down an entire docket of Progressive legislation, including child-labor laws, unionization laws, minimum-wage laws, and the progressive income tax.
Along with repealing minimum-wage laws Congress can lighten the load by repealing all payroll taxes on both employees and employers for anyone making less than the current minimum wage.
But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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They knew that minimum wage laws would hurt lower-skilled workers and the lower-skilled black South Africans who opposed the laws knew that wage competition and capital accumulation were the real paths to higher pay.
We instituted a minimum wage and worker safety laws -- together.
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Minimum wage laws would be suspended, the 40-hour work week would be thrown out, perhaps they would even do away with child labor laws to get productivity up so profits could increase to make up for lost revenue.
The rare Republican rebellion Tuesday coincides with a notable shift to the left by Mr. Cuomo, who is advocating a minimum-wage increase and a package of women's rights laws this year in addition to the new firearms restrictions passed last month.
Minimum wage laws prevent employers from taking advantage of low-quality labor at low prices.
It recently passed laws raising the minimum wage and requiring large employers such as Wal-Mart to pay higher employee health care insurance costs.
The high rate of unemployment in the United States is due primarily to structural problems, high marginal tax rates, minimum wage laws, the extension of unemployment benefits, the high cost of employer-provided health benefits, and uncertainty regarding future fiscal rules and regulations.
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One of the highest priorities at the U.S. Labor Department is to identify situations in which workers are erroneously considered not to be employees or other covered individuals for purposes of complying with minimum-wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements and child-labor restrictions of the FLSA and similar federal wage laws it enforces.
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