FDR: ‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’ Posts attributed a quote about "living wages" to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
‘If the Minimum Wage Increased at the Rate of Productivity Since 1960, It’d Be $24 Today—Not $7.25’ A Twitter screenshot on Imgur claimed that had the minimum wage been indexed to productivity after 1960, it would be $24 (not $7.25) in 2021.
‘The Maximum Legal Campaign Donation is Indexed to Inflation, But the Minimum Wage is Not’ An Imgur screenshot from Twitter described a "very telling" purported aspect of American democracy.
2021 Nobel Prize in Economics: Minimum Wage and Immigrant Labor A tweet about the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was popular across social media platforms.
‘Minimum Wage Would Be $44 [in 2021] If It Grew at the Same Pace as Wall Street Bonuses’ A think-tank's research suggested that if minimum wage increased at the same rate as bonuses on Wall Street, it would be $44 an hour in 2021.
Alabama Senate Blocks Attempts to Raise Minimum Wage in Birmingham In January 2020, an article about Alabama's Senate blocking a minimum wage raise went viral on Facebook.