From Assembly Line to Fast Food Counters

KUAF | By Bill Smith

Published April 22, 2015 at 2:31 PM CDT

This month Walmart instituted a minimum starting wage of nine dollars for all employees. Protests across the country in support of a higher minimum wage are continuing. Our history doctor, Bill Smith, says conversations about what is...and what is not...a livable wage are nothing new.

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