Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Pub. L. 75-718) established the federal minimum wage initially at 25 cents per hour, capped the standard workweek at 40 hours with overtime pay at time-and-a-half, prohibited oppressive child labor, and set recordkeeping and enforcement obligations on covered employers. Upheld by the Supreme Court in United States v. Darby (1941), FLSA is the foundational federal labor-standards statute and the legal vehicle for subsequent minimum-wage adjustments.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.