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doxydad

(1,363 posts) Tue Jul 1, 2014, 08:16 AM Jul 2014

Time for A Raise? What You Need to Know About the Minimum Wage

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http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/10/minimum-wage

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Time for A Raise? What You Need to Know About the Minimum Wage (Original Post) doxydad Jul 2014 OP

In 1974 you could work 25 hrs/wk here in Austin. hobbit709 Jul 2014 #1

hobbit709

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1. In 1974 you could work 25 hrs/wk here in Austin.

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Tue Jul 1, 2014, 08:18 AM

Jul 2014

pay your rent, buy food and still go out once or twice a week. Now at 40 hrs/wk it doesn't even make you enough to pay the rent.

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