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Subject: Re: [Bklyn] Fw: U.S. Statistics from THE YEAR OF 1904....... DOCUMENTATION? ...
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:20:24 EDT
Dunkin Donuts sells packaged coffee at 8 dollars a pound ...
The present minimum wage is 5.15 ...
That comes to slightly more than 1 and 1/2 hours of work to buy a pound of
coffee...
In a message dated 7/9/2004 11:08:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
The average wage was 22 cents and hour, and coffee was 15 cents a pound?? I
know my very poor ancestors drank coffee and were factory workers. Did they
really have to work more than 1/2 an hour to buy just coffee??
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