On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM, joseph noonan <joseph at noonan.ws> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> At 03:20 PM 5/18/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I must be missing something here. $13.60 is almost twice the US federal
> minimum. Yes, I know there are some states that are higher, but TexAss
> isn't one. Those states also tend to be the ones where average house
> prices are $500k and 750 sq/ft apts cost $1500/mo; so be still my beating
> heart for Cali, New York, or Mass's extra buck an hour.
>
>
> And WTF with comparing the *average* wage with a minimum?
>
>
> -j
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