The minimum wage in the 21st century is $2 lower in real dollars than it was five decades ago.
When you adjust for inflation, the minimum wage in this country has actually decreased 38 percent since 1968.
A full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country.
“You get desperate, because you can’t really pay for everything,” said Gladys.
$10.06 per hour 40 years ago.
$6.55 per hour in 2008.
Wealthy elites take more than the 1920s, before the Great Depression.