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Don’t Smoke but Visits Saloons
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 5:02am.
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May 1910. Wilmington, Del. "Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th Street. 10 years old, selling newspapers 1 year. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Don’t smoke but visits saloons. Works five hours per day." Photo by Lewis Hine. View full size.
Minimal wage
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 2:17pm.
Let's see -- assuming five days a week and five hours a day, that's 25 hours a week. Fifty cents divided by 25 hours means two cents per hour. When I delivered papers on a regular route in 1954 I got about one cent per paper, for a total of 75 cents in the morning and again in the evening. I was rich!
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