This is historically false. In the US, the minimum wage was enacted during the Great Depression to put a limit on how low wages could go. In Parrish of West Coa

This is historically false. In the US, the minimum wage was enacted during the Great Depression to put a limit on how low wages could go. In Parrish of West Coast Hotel v Parrish was a married woman. The Fair Labor Standards act of 1938 (passed after the court found a prior law unconstitutional) restricted the labor of people under 18 and gave pay raises to more than half a million American adults. The goal was to raise the wages of working adults. Please offer some hard evidence that the minimum wage is intended only for teenagers.