The National Consumers League works to protect and promote the economic and social interests of America's consumers, using education, research, science, investigation, publications, and the public and private sector to accomplish that mission. The organization was formed in 1899 with that purpose in mind and will continue to throughout the next century.
"We are concerned that goods be produced and distributed and services rendered not only at reasonable prices and in adequate quantity, but under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions that foster quality products for consumers and a decent standard of living for workers.
Our priority shall always be to promote the welfare of those consumers, wage earners, and income recipients least able to protect themselves, and to assist them in developing their own capabilities to the extent possible.
The National Consumers League and its leaders have played active roles in the social and economic history of the nation since the 1890s, when the League first pioneered a concept called advocacy and began fighting for American consumers.
In fact, an early League motto was, "To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have duties." Ninety-seven years later the maxim remains at the heart of NCL. In the early 1900s, the League began practicing its motto at the forefront of the fight for a minimum wage to help workers obtain a decent standard of living. NCL's work culminated in the Fair Labor Standards Act, which created a national minimum wage in 1938.
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