Hard Knock Life
This period occurred after the stock market crashed in in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
These people worked on a contract for a period of time, and were given land and supplies afterward.
What are Indentured Servants?
Increasing training to meet skills for emerging industries
What is TIP (Talent Innovation Program)?
This piece of legislation first established the forty hour work week.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Protections for [blank] were not added to the Civil Rights Act until fourteen years after it was first signed.
Who are pregnant women?
This is the original minimum wage as set in 1938.
What is forty cents?
Name 2 of the emerging TIP industries.
What are (Health, AI, Cybersecurity, or Biotechnology Manufacturing)?
Nearly 2.5 million workers were employed through this group of job-creating programs.
What are the New Deal programs?
A term used for a worker closing the store in a final night shift, only to return early the next morning to open.
What is "clopening"?
This is the youngest age at which a minor can legally work in Maryland.
What is 14?
This $2 million dollar grant is to support non-profits and community colleges in increasing their cybersecurity training
What is Governor Moore's FY2025 Priority?
_______ were not recognized in employment until the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
What is Disability rights?
Workers in industries such as coal mining were often forced to live in these towns controlled by their employer.
What are company towns?
Before Industrialization, the majority of work in America was [blank].
What is agrarian (farming)?
This day is when the TIP fund goes into effect.
What is July 1st?
Two main types of employment-sponsored retirement benefits
What is Defined Benefit Plans and Defined Contribution Plans
This tragedy resulted in greater support for unions, particularly the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
There are this many states that have $7.25 as their minimum wage.
What is 20 (technically, including Georgia and Wyoming and those with no set minimum wage) OR 13 (officially at the state level).
This House bill supports TIP.
What is HB1128?
According to the Chart of 6/12/19, this year had the highest unemployment workers