In 1989, Toshiba patented a microchip-controlled vacuum brewer in which the brewing of the coffee (including the grinding of the coffee beans) is performed automatically based on electronic input of the number of cups and strength desired.
A history of the minimum wage since 1938. The grey line shows the minimum wage, unadjusted for inflation, whereas the blue line shows you what it would be worth in 2012. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt first created the minimum wage in 1938, it was 25 cents. Adjusted for inflation, that would be worth $4.07 today. The minimum wage had its lowest buying power in 1948, when it was worth about $3.81 in today's dollars. It had its highest buying power in 1968, when it was worth about $10.56. At $7.25 in 2012, our current minimum wage is in the middle of those two extremes.
By Molly Moorhead on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 at 4:15 p.m. Mitt Romney spoke about raising the minimum wage at a campaign stop in January 2012. In his State of the Union address this week, President Barack Obama proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage, from the current $7.25 an hour to $9.one of this is to say that Romney would support Obamaâs current proposal to boost the minimum wage to $9 an hour. But Obama was on firm ground claiming that at least for most of Romneyâs political career, the former rivals were in agreement on indexing the wage.