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The '''living wage''' entails the idea that no wage-earning laborer should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above [[poverty level]]. It was an operating principle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's [[New Deal]]. Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the [[minimum wage]] lives on as a vestige of it.

The '''living wage''' entails the idea that no wage-earning laborer should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above [[poverty level]]. It was an operating principle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's [[New Deal]]. Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the [[minimum wage]] lives on as a vestige of it.

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{{quotation|In urging the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] said, "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.  By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level.  I mean the wages of a decent living."<ref>[http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act]</ref>}}

In urging the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] said, "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.  By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level.  I mean the wages of a decent living."

 

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The concept of a living wage is a product of the [[Social gospel]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|last1=Lippy|first1=Charles|title=Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0765601513|pages=127}}</ref> The reverend John A. Ryan, after reading [[Pope Leo XIII]]'s encyclical [[Social Justice|Rerum Novarum]], was so moved by it that he wrote his Ph.D dissertation about minimum wage, and it was published in 1906 as ''The Living Wage''

 

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