But what about instituting a maximum wage? Last year, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grabbed headlines by proposing a marginal tax rate of 70 percent. But in 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

though not under the banner of a maximum wage – is to introduce something akin to a super-tax so that the reasons for paying out over and above the uppermost tax band are less. Roosevelt, with fears ...

Labor laws that encouraged union organization and defined a minimum wage also supported black workers. Roosevelt’s relief programs made him popular with many African Americans, though he shied ...