A brief news item on CCTV news this morning that several Chinese provinces are raising minimum wage standards. Somehow, this story intrigues me because it seems a perfect example of the gap between what the law aspires to and what happens in reality; as low as the minimum wage must be (I've heard that it's somewhere between 3.5-4.5 RMB an hour, 40-60 cents an hour) in reality I'm sure that many people are paid less...more to come on this...a few links I found:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DD123CF930A1575AC0A965958260
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501456.html
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