The racist history of minimum wage laws

[MindWars]

In 1966, Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed for Newsweek entitled “Minimum Wage Rates.”

In it, he argued “that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books.” He was, of course, referring to the then-present era, after the far more explicitly racist laws from the slavery and segregation eras of United States history had already been done away with. But his observation about the racist effects of minimum wage laws can be traced back to the nineteenth century, and they continue to have a disproportionately deleterious effect on African-Americans into the present day.

The Racist History of Minimum Wage Laws

Minimum wage was explicitly designed to stop African-Americans from finding employment

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Do we live in a zombie nation , of course that's why the communist lovers can't stand how Trump is trying to UN do all the wrong. Kinda sucks doesn't zombies.

 

[basquebromance]

McDonald's Worker: I demand $15 an hour

McDonald's: We have lovely touch screens that ensure accuracy. So, bye.

 

[rightwinger]

McDonald's Worker: I demand $15 an hour

McDonald's: We have lovely touch screens that ensure accuracy. So, bye.

Yea...I remember they put those self serve gas pumps when workers wanted more than $2 an hour

 

[hadit]

If a machine can do your job better and cheaper than you can, don't expect to keep your job very long.