you've never heard of it because you aren't surrounded by corn...
here in iowa, there's plenty of it.
it pays descent, last year i got paid $9.25 an hour, and when you work ~150 hours in two weeks at that rate, helps alot for a hihgschooler
that was when minimum wage was 5.25, and i was only 16. This year i believe im going to be making 10.25ish
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