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The '''living wage''' entails the idea that no one should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above [[poverty level]].
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 Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the [[minimum wage]] lives on as a vestige of it.
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