In a recent letter to the editor, a person asked, “Whoever said the minimum wage should be a living wage?” The answer is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when the original minimum-wage law was ...

Minimum wage: G. Wayne Waters (Letters to the Editor, Jan. 21) argues that "the employer should be the determining factor" in how much workers are paid. But we've been down that road in the United ...

Who Was Franklin D. Roosevelt? ... Keep reading for 30 FDR quotes that not only offer a historic look back but are inspiring enough to show a way forward. ... Southern Living.

While its exact meaning is often left conveniently vague, Theodore Roosevelt offered a basic definition in a 1912 speech: A living wage should let workers “secure the elements of a normal ...