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Tiggeroshii Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:43 PM
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106. Now I looked this up recently, and found that the minimum wage in the 30s, indexed with inflation
Edited on Tue May-31-11 06:46 PM by Tiggeroshii
...is still about 5 dollars. Is there likely something wrong with the information I received?

Edit to add: Minimum wage in '38 was $.30. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, that's about 4.79 now.

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

I'm wondering if the min. Wage was actually ever meant to be livable...
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