Wage floors in America are low by European standards.

美国的最低工资标准低于欧洲水平。

The wage floor seems not to have cost jobs.

薪资水平似乎还没导致失业。

Germany's wage floor would barely increase incomes of poor workers, because they would lose welfare top-ups, the study says.

德国的最低工资几乎不会增加贫困工人的收入，研究表明其原因是他们会失去优渥的福利。

Unions once played a really important watchdog role in both maintaining a wage floor across the industry and maintaining safety standards.

工会曾经在维护整个行业的最低工资标准和维护安全标准方面发挥了非常重要的监督作用。

But opinion is divided on whether setting a wage floor will help or harm workers as well as the overall economy.

制定最低工资标准究竟会对工人及整体经济产生何种影响，各界人士对此意见不一。

At street corners, day laborers try to organize a wage floor to prevent undercutting and warn workers of employers with bad reputations when they walk by.

在街角，日工试图组织工资底线以防止压低工资，并在工人经过时警告声誉不佳的雇主。