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MattShizzle
5th October 2011, 19:28
USA worst of all:

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/321661_248287578550665_136805249698899_663860_1733 432663_n.jpg

Completely disgusting.
Jimmy Haddow (SPS)
5th October 2011, 21:19
Where do these figures come from? Should they not be referenced? However, I agree it is disgusting!
bricolage
5th October 2011, 21:23
rah, is this real?
MattShizzle
5th October 2011, 21:27
The 475:1 for the US was referenced (along with a couple others) in Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation." IIRC it was from another book. This one was a picture posted on facebook.
RadioRaheem84
5th October 2011, 22:16
Guys, that's just liberty!
RadioRaheem84
5th October 2011, 22:19
http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_snapshots_20060627/

This one has it at 800 times more!
MattShizzle
5th October 2011, 22:57
Well, that one's comparing it to minimum wage - the average worker (at least for now) still makes more than minimum wage most places (and I think min wage is over $7 an hour now - still way too low obviously.)
Danielle Ni Dhighe
6th October 2011, 11:05
I think min wage is over $7 an hour now - still way too low obviously.)
$7.25 is the Federal minimum wage per hour, and some states and municipalities have a higher minimum (Washington State at $8.67 is the highest in the country). A recent study posited that $16 per hour would represent an actual living wage, so, yes, the minimum is far below that.