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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
That's a 24% jump over last year.
While the province's working poor struggle on $8.75 an hour.
Premier Dalton McGuinty says its no big deal.
McGuinty makes $203,439 a year.
Minimum wage just jumped from $8/hr. to a whopping $8.75/hr. This amounts to $4,000 less than the low-income cutoff as defined by the government.
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maybe that's why politicians loose prospective of the working class when they get into office.