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To: Dale Baker who wrote (4871)	11/3/2005 12:33:00 PM
From: TimF	of 541658

In an apparent attempt to ensure that nobody rebuilding the Katrina-damaged Gulf Coast made much more than minimum wage, Bush had suspended the 1931 statute. "Prevailing wage" means a union scale wage. Calling the effort to suspend the statue an effort to ensure that no one "made much more than minimum wage", is just inaccurate. The wages for rebuilding that have not been covered by union contracts or by the Davis-Bacon act have typically been well above minimum wage, and even if they had not been (something which was never particularly likely) applying a market rage rather than a set wage structure isn't "an effort to ensure minimum wage". Tim

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