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Monday 9 April 2012
The Minimum Wage Is Too Damn Low

It is coming up on three years since the last increase in the federal minimum wage – to $7.25 per hour – in July 2009. By all of the most commonly used benchmarks – inflation, average wages, and productivity – the minimum wage is now far below its historical level.

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    Where is Obama champion of the poor?
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    Goddamn right its too low. Not that Vlad would ever pay me more at my job anyways, but shit.
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    It is coming up on three years since the last increase in the federal minimum wage — to $7.25 per hour — in July 2009....
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    Great article! Read it!
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    Minimum wage in Canada is like 10-11 an hour. I told my friends in the states and one of them said, this is the exact...
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