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     1        A.  No.
     2
     3   Q.   The New Jersey rate is $5?
     4        A.  Approximately $5.
     5
     6   Q.   Is that fairly typical -- did that come, the $5 rate, did
     7        that come in at the same time as the federal one, or since
     8        then?
     9        A.  The federal one would have come in in April, I think,
    10        of 1991.  God, I do not know for sure.  I really do not
    11        know.  I know that New Jersey has had theirs for a few
    12        years, three to four years.  So it may be right around that
    13        time, but I do not know which came first, frankly.
    14
    15   Q.   Is that fairly typical, then, that a state minimum is, I do
    16        not know, 75 cents; is that relative?
    17        A.  No.  The reason, when you asked me about New Jersey,
    18        that that stuck in my memory is that is the highest one, to
    19        my knowledge, in the US.  The others are not that high.
    20
    Q.   If you could get pink volume XIV, I think it is?
    22        A.  Yes, I have it.
    23
    24   Q.   Turn to tab 81, please.
    25        A.  Sure, I have it.
    26
    27   Q.   If you turn to page 1428?
    28        A.  Yes, I have it.
    29
    30   Q.   You see in the fifth paragraph, it says: "If the federal
    31        minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, it would now be
    32        $4.79 an hour."  Would you accept that?
    33        A.  No.  I have no idea how they figured that.
    34
    35   Q.   But you would accept that the last time the federal minimum
    36        wage had been increased prior to this date, which is
    37        November 1989, was -----
    38        A.  November 1999?
    39
    40   Q.   It says so on the front cover; it says the report is
         November 1989.
    42        A.  What year?
    43
    44   Q.   If you look at the front cover of the report, at the bottom
    45        it says "November 1989".
    46        A.  You are saying '89; you were saying '99 to me.
    47
    48   Q.   Sorry.  Well, I did say '89.  It does not matter
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Never mind.  It was November 1989. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  You do not know what the rate in 1989 was? 
    53        A.  No.  That is why I was getting a little bit confused.
    54        OK, so that is '89.  What is the question?
    55   .
    56   MS. STEEL:  At the time this was produced, the minimum wage
    57        rate, the federal minimum wage rate, had not been increased
    58        since January 1st, 1981?
    59        A.  OK.  That is after this date.
    60