Dave Smith > fnord
:

> Saerah Gray wrote:
>>>
>> I make less than that 28 G raise, and while we don't go without
>> anything basic, I don't have room in my budget for much in the way of
>> extras or savings. I don't know how anyone making minimum wage
>> (currently about half of what I make per hour) gets by at all.
>
> I can sympathize. My point was that, while blocking increases in the
> federal minimum wage, the same legislative body voted themselves a
> number of raises that amounted to more than double the annual wage of
> minimum wage workers, and of course the raises were on top of the
> hefty salaries they were already making.
>
>

Oh, I got your point. I was just expounding on it from the point of view
of someone who makes a lot more than minimum wage (or what one wouild
receive on AFDC), but is still basically just getting by.

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