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Posted on September 25th, 2009 in What the Weekly's Reading

Minimum wage, it ain’t

By Weekly Staff

When you hear ‘$250-per-hour,’ what comes to mind? Lawyers? Call girls? How about public relations? This morning, John Archibald writes that, for the last year and a half, the BJCC has been paying Jesse Lewis that much for his ’services.’ Take this one: ‘$1,500′ to attend one Birmingham City Council meeting. And all these year’s we’ve been going there for next to nothing.

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