Within those two buckets what was relevant was that in the developing world most people still depend on agriculture for their livelihood and want to know how to stay healthy in their limited means because each healthy day is a wage earning day.
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Modern day minimum wage earners have less buying power than minimum wage earners in 1968, and they are increasingly losing more buying power while the current minimum wage fails to keep pace with inflation.
We have millions of Americans who are working hard every single day for minimum wage, living in poverty in America.
The very same small business operators and hard-working American wage earners who, on election day, cast their votes for a Republican Party that bills itself as the party of fiscal responsibility.
Perhaps it is a modern day depression with price and wage deflation.
Knowing financial markets might tumble on the news, the Senate reassured them by approving a much-needed new bankruptcy law on the same day as the minimum-wage vote.
So any wage concessions would have just postponed the judgment day.
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Mr Szymanski plans to update his figures to the present day in an effort to see whether the wage gap has narrowed.
Today marks three years to the day since the last increase in the federal minimum wage.
They focus on paying their employees a fair wage, providing social support (e.g. child day care, literacy classes, medical services), and ensuring their subcontractors do the same.
As in Henry Ford's day, it is workers' productivity that drives long-term wage gains, not workers' wages that drive growth.
And, in a message on Twitter, David Cameron hailed "a big day for welfare reform as we pilot a cap on benefits equal to the average wage" - adding "amazingly Labour oppose it".
Thailand, and Singapore approved measures to give domestic workers a weekly day off, while Venezuela and the Philippines adopted broad laws for domestic workers ensuring a minimum wage, paid holidays, and limits to their working hours.
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