South Dakota workers struggle to make ends meet on $7.25 minimum wage

Oct. 12– When Kathy Day started working as a hotel housekeeper in 2012, she was making less than $8 per hour. Taking home an hourly wage of just more than the $7.25 that state law required, Day, an Aberdeen resident, said it wasn’t easy surviving on such a small stipend. “There are quite a few people who work for minimum wage money in Aberdeen,” said Day, as she rattled some…