It set the base at 25 cents an hour and the maximum work week at 44 hours. Even with that, it took nine years and World War II to beat back the damage of Herbert Hoover's Great Depression.
"We also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills... the powerful feed upon the powerless... masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without any means of escape”... Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded." -- Pope Francis, 24 Nov, 2013
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