It doesn't sound like much, but Mexico City's mayor has raised hackles with a proposal to increase the country's $5 per-day minimum wage to $6 per day.
Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera says the city will propose raising the 67.29 peso minimum wage to 80 pesos per day. That's about the price of a hamburger meal at a chain restaurant in Mexico.
Mancera told local media Monday "it won't be easy." Federal officials have expressed fear such a measure will cause inflation.
Mexico's minimum is comparable to Honduras or Nicaragua, the poorest nations . . .
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