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Twenty-Five Cents an Hour: How the Fair Labor Standards Act Passed How Frances Perkins and Franklin Roosevelt won the first federal minimum wage and 40-hour week in 1938, the fight it took to pass, and the workers it left out by design. What the July 2025 Tax and Spending Law Did to Medicaid and SNAP A plain guide to the work requirements, six-month renewals, state cost shifts and benefit changes for Medicaid and SNAP in the July 4, 2025 law, and when each one is set to arrive. When the Top Tax Rate Was 91 Percent, and Who Actually Paid It The 1950s top rate of 91 percent is a favorite progressive talking point. Here is how few people paid it, what the rich really owed, and what that era can and cannot teach us now. Who Gained the Most From the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act The 2017 tax law cut the corporate rate to 21 percent for good and individual rates for eight years. Here is how its gains were divided, and the strongest case its supporters make.