Minimum Wage

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 16 08:57:17 PST 2001


kelley wrote:


>curious, how is the min wage figure derived, below? i assume
>they're including migrant labor wages and those paid to immigrants
>who are working off the books?
>
>"Bush opposes affirmative action, and presides over a state that has a
>minimum wage of only $3.15 an hour. "

Hmm, weird, since the national minimum wage is higher (and the national minimum exempts most ag workers).

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list