Tuesday, March 11, 2008
more inofrmation
Man it just goes to show that some states are richer that other states I was talking with a couple of my boys and we were talking about my paper the minimum wage thing right. And my boy was like Massachusetts or just Boston itself has a minimum wage of 8 and some change I don’t really know the exact number because I was not taking notes or trying to quote him seriously but think that is like 5 dollars away from a good paying job. That is really a lot of money think people are always working at the smallest places just think you getting paid 8 dollars and change to bag someone groceries that is nice I could do that I am used to getting 6.00 for doing that and that is a to dollar increase that is a lot I thought I was getting under paid and after hearing that I serious believe that I was jipped a couple of dollars and that adds up ova time. This was a summer ago so I am sure that both of them have went up over time so think they are getting paid a lot to do some of the simplest jobs and they do not have a college degree. Being a teen still in high school or having a summer job they are living the good live they got a lot of paper in their pockets.
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My topic is pretty similar to yours, and I’ve found that there’s a ton of basic information on things like minimum wage raises on the Department of Labor website. http://www.dol.gov/ That’s a good resource for the history of the minimum wage, too.
And your friend is right, there are some states that have minimum wages higher than the national minimum wage. And, yep, Massachusetts has an $8 minimum wage http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm#Massachusetts
It's crazy to think that right across a border people could be making that much more. But I think it should really be up to the state or city for that matter, because they're better with the local needs. I'm not really sure how much raising the minimum wage would help though because then I think everything else would go up.
P.S. Your run-on sentences are killing me. Hah :)
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