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.
Huckleberry was commonly used in the 1800's in conjunction with persimmon as a small unit of measure. I'm a huckleberry over your persimmon meant I'm just a bit better than you. As a result, huckleberry came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a tad, as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person--usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation.