On that front, one of the worst offenders is the minimum wage law.
As the AP notes, Congress passed the first minimum wage law in 1938 and has voted for raises since, but has never linked it to inflation.
This can be a hard pill for neoclassical economists and those who think like them to swallow, but it helps if you think of the minimum wage as it really is: a minimum productivity law.
Here is a suggestion for a smart minimum wage law (perhaps proposed in return for relaxing federal healthcare taxes and mandates for small business?): A minimum wage rise that is triggered by stipulated economic conditions, much like the Fed says it will let interest rates seek market levels only when unemployment drops to 6.5%.
If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimum wage.
They treat environmental pressures as annoying obligations and only do the minimum required by law.
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The federal minimum-wage law has always served a symbolic purpose beyond setting a specific number.
The government also agreed to the demand to retain the minimum age under law for consensual sex at 18.
Williams has only disclosed details regarding his personal investments in hedge funds up to the minimum information Florida law requires.
The government agreed to the demand to retain the minimum age under law for consensual sex at 18 as it prepares to propose the bill in Parliament Tuesday.
Ever wonder what our labor market would look like without minimum wages or labor law protections?
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New York, a 1934 case upholding a New York law setting minimum milk prices.
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When Chairwoman Mary Schaprio hopped from the industry to the SEC, she submitted to the bare-bones minimum disclosure required by law.
At a minimum, said Southwestern Law School mass-torts expert Byron Stier, his pay and method of calculating it should be disclosed.
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Anticipating resistance, his advisers are already working on a draft of the law on minimum service, so as to curb the effectiveness of strikes.
The specific problem here at Foxconn this time seems to be that some small number of those interns were under age, 14 and 15 instead of the 16 minimum demanded by Chinese law.
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Under present law the independence minimum comes to 4.7 billion gallons of ethanol this year and 7.5 billion in 2012.
After an initial period, they can all fall to a minimum rate under the state law where they are sold.
The EC itself has already said "we have a problem with the compatibility of minimum pricing plans under community law".
The law mandated a minimum 25-cent-per-hour wage, in addition to setting the maximum amount of hours most employees could work per week at 44.
The EC itself has said "what we can say is we have a problem with the compatibility of minimum pricing plans under community law".
The amended law raised the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of raping a minor to 20 years and allowed the death penalty in extreme cases.
In Saudi Arabia, no law stipulates a minimum age for marriage.
The law raises the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of gang rape or raping a minor to 20 years and allows for the death penalty in extreme cases.
There was no mandatory minimum sentence under prior federal law.
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Republicans in Michigan's state assembly were so worried that a proposed ballot initiative would boost Democratic turnout that they dropped their resistance to the idea and passed their own law raising the minimum wage.
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In Saudi Arabia, there is no law that stipulates a minimum age for marriage.
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