Hong Kong’s new minimum wage still fails the working poor as wealth gap widens

By Kalina Tsang

At HK$40 per hour, the minimum wage is below the welfare payment needed for a family of two to survive, and demotivating when the city’s richest earn over 47 times more. The minimum wage must catch up with inflation and do better than welfare payments in allowing workers to support a dependent.

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