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$11.60 is still chump change, even in Europe. Living minimum wage, or quit. No one who is currently rich will not be any less so. Quite the opposite.
āSo, did an Excel coding error destroy the economies of the Western world?ā http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-depression.html?_r=0
Nice to see Ms. Merkel finally smell the coffee about austerity but now, please cue the āGreekā chorus to emanate from the wallow on the Potomac about socialism.
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there need to be a national minimum wage here in the u.s. of a.
could someone ask merkel to call boneheaded boehner for me.
There is a national minimum wage in the US, in fact it is the only minimum wage in a number of States, it just isnāt high enough to actually live off of.
There goes the one of the last bastions that the GOP and āconservativesā love to point to in trying to defend their attacks on the min. wage.
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Huh? The Federal min. wage (which is the floor for all the states is $7.25 per hour, and has been at that level since July 24, 2009.
While (and many others) would agree that is too low (and hasnāt even kept up to inflation over the years) but it does exist.
Even in Europe? Europe, Germany in particular, is considerably more expensive than the 'States.
I might add I am stunned that their was no minimum wage in Germany before this. Of course, their unions are much more powerful than here and probably served to keep wages up much more effectively than here. I wish this story would tell us what percentage of the German workforce would actually get a raise under this new minimum wage.