The minimum wage law is an example of a right guaranteed by the constitutions.
In the United States, statutory minimum wages were first introduced nationally in 1938.
The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 is the current federal minimum wage law of the United States. The act implemented three increases to the federal minimum wage—from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 per hour on July 24, 2007, to $6.55 per hour on July 24, 2008, and to $7.25 an hour on July 24, 2009.[121]
As of July 24, 2009, U.S. federal law requires a minimum wage of at least $7.25 per hour.
Because Spain liked having small kingdoms
I think that the cartoonist called it "fun with Economic Reality" because the Comic seems to be funny, and yet it treats a very serious and a very sad topic.
The Cartoonist implies that the rich don't really understand the problems of the poor and see the poor as "lucky" just because they are in the US, not understanding that the poor in the US are truly struggling, even if maybe their situation might not be as desperate as of the poor in Bangladesh. (which is not sure - it's not clear whether the poor have it worse in the US or in Bangladesh).
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In the United States, the government operates under a principle called federalism. Two separate governments, federal and state, regulate citizens. The federal government has limited power over all fifty states. State governments have the power to regulate within their state boundaries.
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