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Article: Poverty level to guide Macomb County wages.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2005
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Byline: John Masson
Oct. 25--Genafer Hintz has a college degree, $40,000 in student loan debt and three part-time jobs. Someday, she says, she hopes to cut that back to one job that pays what she would consider a living wage.
So it's not surprising she took great exception Monday when Lillian Adams, executive director of the Sterling Heights, Utica and Shelby Township Chamber of Commerce, told Macomb County lawmakers, "There's employees who aren't worth any more than $5 an hour."
"I'm worth more than that," Hintz said to the applause of an audience full of labor advocates. "I can't find a job that pays a living wage."
Even though ...