I realize I didn't publish a Thanksgiving post. But since we are supposed to be thankful every day of the year anyway, here's something to help you. Before you get too down about the economy being tight and maybe Christmas being a little tighter this year than before, consider the following.
Depending on where you live, minimum wage in Honduras is somewhere between 4450 Lps and 5500 Lps per year. The exchange rate is about 19 Lps per USD, so that works out to be $2,810 to $3,475 per year, which works out to be $1.35 to $1.67 per hour. That would mean working all day for between $11 and $13 dollars. A lot of people earn this amount. And given extremely high unemployment here, some people don't earn anything at all except what they can pick up in odd jobs. Compare those figures to you salary or hourly rate and see if you don't feel better now.
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