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.
We use the name huckleberry for many different plants throughout North America. The most widely known huckleberries are native to the eastern and southeastern United States and belong to four species found in the genus Gaylussacia. This genus is not found in the western United States. Western huckleberries belong to the genus Vaccinium. Their flowers and fruit resemble those of highbush and lowbush blueberries, which are also Vaccinium species. Western huckleberries, however, are in a different taxo-nomic section (Myrtillus) than highbush and lowbush blueber-ries (Cyanococcus). The primary difference is that huckleberries produce