Discuss the purposes and features of the minimum wage, and identify groups of workers not guaranteed it.
What will be an ideal response?
Congress in 1938 enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage. The aim was to guarantee most employed workers a living wage-a wage high enough to keep them out of poverty. The federal government has amended this law several times to expand minimum wage coverage to additional job categories, yet there are still many exceptions to it. Workers not guaranteed the federal minimum wage include full-time students, youths under 20 years of age for the first 90 days of their employment, workers who earn tips, commissioned sales employees, farm laborers, and seasonal and recreational workers.
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The most common example of a metropolitan coordination problem is ________
A. local elections B. municipal street repair C. transportation D. education
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. American foreign policy makers must operate under the same controls and restrictions as their domestic policy counterparts. 2. The Berlin Wall had stood in some form since the end of World War II in the late 1940s. 3. Thanks to intense diplomatic efforts and controls, at no point during the Cold War did the world’s superpowers come close to a nuclear conflict. 4. After the Cold War, the United States stood alone as a military hyperpower.
Describe what it means for a program to “cream” a segment of the population.
What will be an ideal response?
Roughly two-thirds of all lobbyists in the nation's capital represent
A. activist organizations. B. nonprofit organizations. C. business firms. D. foreign-based political action groups. E. labor unions.