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Minimum wage used not to be a joke. In California now, the minimum wage is $6.75 and it's a joke. Back in the early '70s I was attending college and working in a pizza parlor in California. Minimum wage was $1.90, we got maybe $2. In those days, that kind of money could get you a so-so studio apartment. In California. If two of you went in together, you could split a decent two-bedroom. Because when you allow for inflation, that $2.00 rate is more like $10.00 or more in today's money.
We have gotten a lot poorer as a nation in the last few decades, and a lot of people seem not to have noticed.
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