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min_wage: History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938-2009

Description

A data set on the various federal minimum wage rates.

Usage

min_wage

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following 5 variables.

date

a date for when a new minimum wage was introduced

wage

the (nominal) value of the wage

Details

Data come from the Department of Labor. Wages are taken from wage adjustments from the 1938 act.