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Graph showing the basic supply and demand model of the minimum wage in the labor market.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Modern economics suggests that a moderate minimum wage may increase employment as labor markets are monopsonistic and workers lack bargaining power.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

CBO table illustrating projections of the effects of minimum wage increases on employment and income, under two scenarios

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

A 2010 study published in the Review of Economics and Statistics compared 288 pairs of contiguous U.S. counties with minimum wage differentials from 1990 to 2006 and found no adverse employment effects from a minimum wage increase. Contiguous counties with different minimum wages are in purple. All other counties are in white.

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Protesters call for an increased minimum wage as part of the "Fight for $15" effort to require a $15 per hour minimum wage in 2015.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

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President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

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Most Republicans oppose increases in the minimum wage, believing that such increases hurt businesses by forcing them to cut and outsource jobs while passing on costs to consumers.

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The Democratic Party favors raising the minimum wage.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Politically, the Republican party has generally opposed increases to the minimum wage, while the progressive wing of the Democratic party, aligned with the Fight for 15 movement, has recently supported raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

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Garment workers on strike, New York City circa 1913

Trade union

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Organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause-conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers.

Early 19th century workplace militancy manifested in the Luddite riots, when unemployed workers destroyed labour saving machines.

Poster issued by the London Trades Council, advertising a demonstration held on 2 June 1873

Trade union demonstrators held at bay by soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Eight-hour day march circa 1900, outside Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne

Costa Rican agricultural unions demonstration, January 2011

2011 National Trade Union Council (Zenrokyo) May Day march, Tokyo

Public sector workers in Leeds striking over pension changes by the government in November 2011

Child labourers in an Indiana glass works. Labor unions have an objective interest in combating child labour.

Cesar Chavez speaking at a 1974 United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California. The UFW during Chavez's tenure was committed to restricting immigration.

The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 was a trade union strike involving more than 200,000 workers.

A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike on 28 March 2006

World map with countries shaded according to their trade union density rate with statistics provided by the International Labour Organization Department of Statistics
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On the other side, there are many policies such as minimum wage, paid vacation, maternity/paternity leave, etc., that decrease the need to be in a union.

In the United States, trade unions are almost always aligned with the Democratic Party with a few exceptions.

For example, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has supported Republican Party candidates on a number of occasions and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Women marching for the right to vote, 1912

Progressivism in the United States

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Political philosophy and reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century.

"The Bosses of the Senate", a cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicting corporate interests–from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes and salt–as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber of the United States Senate

A poster highlighting the situation of child labor in the United States in the early 20th century

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed Americans to the horrors of the Chicago meatpacking plants.

Senator Bernie Sanders, an advocate of single-payer healthcare

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, an advocate of action on climate change and author of the Green New Deal

The American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers after 1907 began supporting the Democrats, who promised more favorable judges as the Republicans appointed pro-business judges.

Theodore Roosevelt and his third party also supported such goals as the eight-hour work day, improved safety and health conditions in factories, workers' compensation laws and minimum wage laws for women.