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At todays minimum wage rate, that would have been 1.29 an hour. 
In Response To: I was making $1.60 an hour, minimum wage at the time, bagging groceries after school at the local IGA. 
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() We are definitely going backwards in that regard. Minimum wage is paying great dividends to big biz, thanks to it not keeping up with inflation.
The new minimum wage golden nugget for wage speculators is the "internship". I'm finding it hard to believe how many businesses think nothing of asking our kids fresh out of college to work for nothing, "to get started".
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- A Donald Crowhurst connection
- Are those LW beacons still broadcasting?
- I remember those. They were around
- Interesting story - Donald Crowhurst
- Interesting. And that 170.00 is inflated to 1020.00, today.
- I was making $1.60 an hour, minimum wage at the time, bagging groceries after school at the local IGA.
- At todays minimum wage rate, that would have been 1.29 an hour.
- At todays minimum wage rate, that would have been 1.29 an hour.
- I was making $1.60 an hour, minimum wage at the time, bagging groceries after school at the local IGA.
- Are those LW beacons still broadcasting?