Posted on 10/24/2017 10:52:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The push to raise Mexico’s low wages got some unusual champions Monday.
The Mexican Employers’ Federation said the minimum wage should be raised 19 percent, to the equivalent of about $5 a day.
And telecom magnate Carlos Slim, Mexico’s richest man, told a business conference that “what has to be done is to substantially increase people’s incomes.” He called for a larger, better-paid middle class to stimulate Mexico’s internal market. …
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Trump is behind this. Not a joke.
They should push for $5 per hour.
Two packs of tortillas instead of one.
C’mon. How hard would it be to, at a minimum , model your country after your more prosperous neighbor to the North?
Canada is a nice place with only 35 million peeps yet their GDP outperforms yours by $600 million and you 135 million citizens (4 times Canada) and you have ten times more usable land mass....
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