No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wag…

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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 decent living. ✨ Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.
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