• terwn43lp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    btwn the two of them (correct me if I’m wrong, just going from memory): raised housing costs, stopped social benefits, criminalized drugs, were against worker’s rights & minimum wage, against universal healthcare, overall made life harder for everyone except the upper class

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      Casual reminder that Nixon set his federal minimum wage at something he considered unreasonably, insultingly low, and that was $12 per hour adjusted for inflation.