Posted on 01/05/2014 6:17:08 PM PST by grundle
HAVANA -
The average monthly salary in Cuba rose 17 percent between 2006 and 2011 to the equivalent of $19, the state statistics office said Monday.
That meant the average monthly wage of workers in Cuba, where the Communist-ruled state controls more than 90 percent of the economy, climbed from the equivalent of $16 a month in 2006 to $19 last year, the office said on its website.
Low salaries are a key complaint in the Americas' only one-party Communist regime.
There is a very small salary range from unskilled to highly skilled labor, so a street sweeper might make $17 and a brain surgeon $22 a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...
“Paging Michael Moore...Michael, where are you?”
Considering the weather, he's more likely to be at his Park Avenue address in New York than at his 10,000 square foot house on Torch Lake, in Michigan:
If Barry had seen that photo he would have given Hugo the “Benetton Kiss” for real.
I never saw that one.
No info on it.
Income Equality-Yaye!
This is from two years ago, but it’s the most recent that I could find. Perhaps brain surgeons are now up to $25 a month?
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Is that before taxes...?
Just wondering.
That’s weird. My posted link goes to a no information page, but I can google to the same link and there is information.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042352/
I can gurantee you none of those “ brain surgeons” is going to any international conference unless it’s in North Korea....
That one works. Wiki is always funky.
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