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  2. List of countries by minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    €1,934.40 (US$2288) per month, and €11.16 (US$13.2) per hour for persons 21 and older; between 30–80% (as low as €3.35 per hour) of this amount for persons aged 15–20. [163] An additional holiday allowance of 8% of the annual wage is paid in May or June, prorated for the time worked in the year.

  3. Economy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 2021 study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition found that workers would have to make at least $24.90 an hour to be able to afford (meaning 30% of a person's income or less) renting a standard two-bedroom home or $20.40 for a one-bedroom home anywhere in the US. The former is 3.4 times higher than the current federal minimum wage.

  4. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent to the Coinage Act of 1834 the dollar's fine gold equivalent was revised to 23.2 grains; it was slightly adjusted to 23.22 grains (1.505 g) in 1837 (gold-silver ratio ≈16). The same act also resolved the difficulty in minting the "standard silver" of 89.24% fineness by revising the dollar's alloy to 412.5 grains, 90% silver, still ...

  5. Hyperinflation - Wikipedia

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    Equivalent daily inflation rate (%) Time required for prices to double Highest denomination Hungary: Hungarian pengő: July 1946 4.19 × 10 16: 207.19 14.82 hours 100 quintillion P (10 20) Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe dollar: November 2008 7.96 × 10 10: 98.01 24.35 hours $100 trillion (10 14) Yugoslavia: Yugoslav dinar: January 1994 3.13 × 10 8: 64.63 ...

  6. Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...

  7. Nuclear power - Wikipedia

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    Civilian nuclear power supplied 2,602 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2023, equivalent to about 9% of global electricity generation, [3] and was the second largest low-carbon power source after hydroelectricity. [166] Nuclear power's contribution to global energy production was about 4% in 2023.

  8. Tesla Roadster (first generation) - Wikipedia

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    The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, that is based on the Lotus Elise chassis, and was produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012.The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge. [7]