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GRANDMA EMBEDDED IN AMERICA: Minimum hourly wage, averaged in Mexico is $.61 an hour.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Minimum hourly wage, averaged in Mexico is $.61 an hour.

Last year at this time, it was $2.04 or so. Now, do you understand the migration? When I was young, America had a huge middle class. Eveyone in America seemed to be middle class. The rich kept a fairly low profile, not flaunting their economic superiority as they do now, and the poor could get by on... Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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