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Examiner.comThe Federal Unemployment minimum wage is currently set at $7.40 per hour. Within an 40 hour week of wages, an employee earning minimum wage would make $296.00 per week, approximately $1282.00 per month or $15384 a year. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services 2009 standard for the rate of poverty for a median American family of four is set at $22,050 per year.
In June 1938, to avoid pocket vetoes, nine days after Congress had adjourned, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed 121 bills. One of these bills was the landmark law in the Nation's social and economic development -- Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
Regardless of the low rate of pay for employees making the minimum wage, the rate has recently entered the nation's political debate. A new crop of conservative Republican and named "Tea Party" candidates for the Senate have called into question, the nations' need for a standard of the minimum wage, at all.
Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller of Alaska has stated both the Federal Minimum Wage law and unemployment benefits are both unconstitutional, in his opinion, and should be set individually by states. Ironically, it was reported on October 5 in the Alaska Dispatch.com that Mr. Miller's wife, who was hired to work as a part-time clerk for Alaska court in which he was serving as a U.S. magistrate judge, received on unemployment after she left the job in 2004................
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