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Old 18th July 2013, 18:39   #1
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McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage

In a financial planning guide for its workers, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by on a fast food paycheck.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...m-wage/277845/

Here's another article referring to this one:

Why you should care what fast food earners earn:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...s-earn/277863/

I'm not sure this future is as far off as this author says. Not in the future, but now, the bulk of growth in the jobs sector is in low paying service jobs.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/05/a-goo...-wage-reality/
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