Monday, September 02, 2013

How Minimum Is The Minimum?

How America's Minimum Wage Really Stacks Up Globally - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic:
By the standards of other rich nations, the U.S. minimum wage, at $7.25 an hour, can look pretty measly. Australia's minimum for full-time adult employees works out to almost $15, these days. France's is around $12. For almost a year now, American fast food workers have been going on strike to demand that kind of pay...

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