The Roosevelt Administration passed the Fair Labor Standards Act and its purpose was to keep workers out of poverty. ... An individual supporting a family will not make enough to live above the federal poverty threshold, which is $22,283 (U.S. ... Current minimum wage is enough to place an individual above the poverty line. ... Thus, customers will pay for higher prices in the check out line. ... The key purpose of why the federal minimum wage was created is to keep U.S. working citizens out of poverty. ...

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It is enough for a family of three to stay above the poverty line-which can't be said for today's minimum-wage workers. " (Cooper) Like shown in this quote, he isn't letting his strong-hearted feeling take over his article. ... Stern just rambles on about how everyday people like him have to pay tax dollars that help out the people in poverty. ... This is not factual at all and he makes the poverty stricken people seem worthless about themselves. ... Making the reader angry towards the poverty stricken people is not the best way to approach this topic. ... He can simply state th...

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They are considered "unskilled" laborers who never worked hard to break free from the poverty line. ... There is a vicious cycle of poverty that makes things like this hard for poor people. ... The low-wage work and the poverty it creates is essential to the economic success of business. ... For those at the top of the economic food chain, such an attitude further distances them away from poverty. ...

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Those violations include: excessively long hours of work, poverty wages, unreasonable fines, workplace hazards, poor food, and dangerously overcrowded dormitories. ... Under pressure from labor-rights activists, Kathie LeeGifford has announced an inspection program for all factoriesproducing her line of clothes. ... Sean John Young women producing clothes for Puff Daddy's "Sean John" clothing line were suffering abuses and fired if they tried to speak out about their mistreatment. ...

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If we can gain economic justice for all, it will mean the difference between poverty and survival for many, especially women and children."" ... Thus a perfectly equal distribution can be depicted by the straight line y = x; this line is called the line of perfect equality. ... We call this curve the line of perfect inequality. The Lorenz curve is used to calculate the Gini coefficient, which is the area between the line of perfect equality and the Lorenz curve, as a percentage of the area between the line of perfect equality and the line of perfect inequality. ...

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One argument in favor of the minimum wage is that it sets a bottom line wage. ... At $6.75 an hour, workers are below the poverty level and cannot make ends meet. ... One job should pay enough not only to keep the worker above the poverty level but should provide a reasonable standard of living. ...

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In 2008 The Great Recession started and it killed the economy. The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. It began with the bursting of an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble (The Great Recession). People were being allowed to borrow money for houses they couldn't afford thus resulting...

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Sweatshops are sources of cheap and ample labor, and are the result of our global economy, with the constant demand for cheaper and better products by consumers. They are generally defined as "a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage o...

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