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.
1. Huckleberry Finn First Appears In Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to Tom Sawyer, Twainâs novel about his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri. Huck is the âjuvenile pariah of the villageâ and âson of the town drunkard,â Pap Finn. He wears cast-off adult clothes and sleeps in doorways and empty barrels.