The minimum-wage job is a rite of passage.

工资最低的工作是一段通道。

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Many employers seem to think that by calling a job an internship they may ignore the national minimum wage.

许多老板似乎认为把一些工作称为实习他们就可以忽视国家的最低工资标准。

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"My dream," says Mr. Weiner, 26, "was to get a job writing comedy and make more than minimum wage watching dogs die."

“我的梦想，” 26岁的Weiner先生说，“是找到一份写戏剧工作，而不是现在这份拿着最低工资还要看着狗死去的工作。”

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It means somebody who has got a minimum-wage job is paying 10 percent.

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Mr Miliband said the initiative was different from the government's Youth Contract in that it guaranteed a paid job on the minimum wage and on-the-job training, saying one of the government's work experience scheme was "the only work programme in history which does not guarantee work".

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Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.

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