Detroit's minimum wage is a whopping $7.40 an hour, more than $2 above the federal minimum wage when it was enacted; and pressure groups are pushing for more. Additionally, any company contracting with the city must pay its employees $8.23 an hour if they offer benefits or $10.28 an hour if they do not offer benefits.
huckleberry (plural huckleberries) 1  A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. 2  A shrub growing this fruit. ( 3 idiomatic) A small amount, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon. ( 4 slang) A person of little consequence.
Total Votes: 1428. 1  Huck Huckleberry Finn is the main character and narrator of the story. Without a mother and with an often absent (and drunk) father, he is basically an orphan who lives with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas. 2  Tom Tom appears in the beginning and end of the novel. Like Huck, he enjoys the outdoors.