The Minimum Wage in America Is Pretty Damn Low

Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.motherjones.com

Everyone's talking about the minimum wage today. I'm in favor of raising it, and I always have been, but a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a picture for you. Courtesy of the OECD, it shows the minimum wage in various rich countries as a percentage of the average wage. The United States isn't quite the lowest, but we're pretty damn close.
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