Venezuela Boosts Minimum Wage 30% on World’s Fastest Inflation
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Venezuela will raise the minimum wage for workers and pensioners effective in May after the world’s fastest annual inflation rate surged to 59 percent last month.
The wage increase puts the overall increase in the minimum wage this year at 43 percent, President Nicolas Maduro said in a national address. The government will consider another increase in the fourth quarter, he said.