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A Brief History of the Minimum Wage
Employee Benefit Research Institute [EBRI] Link to more items from this source
May 18, 1998

"The minimum wage was first enacted into law as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The original minimum wage applied to workers engaged in interstate commerce and the production of goods for interstate commerce. In 1938, this applied to roughly 11.0 million workers out of a total of 54.9 million workers. The minimum wage was set at $0.25 per hour."  MORE >>

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