>Our average hourly wage was $18.51 in April. Their min would be 73% of
>our average!
wow! it declined by nearly $2 since 2008. the suckage.
today, there was a show on the radio with local politicians who were advocating a $10 min. hourly wage. a few years back, in 2003, the living wage requirement for FL was $10/hr.
The interview suggested that they'd be hard pressed to get support for a 13.60/hr min wage there. the whole thing was interesting given Angelus Novus's comments about how the u.s. left has a notion that everything is so wonderful in W. European states. But they're struggling to get $13.60 on the map in Germany (the interview gave the impression that their platform was pie-in-the-sky) and up against pushes to raises the retirement age as well.
shag
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