During the economic boom of the 1990s, when many American workers enjoyed their first pay raises in a generation, the real value of wages in the restaurant industry continued to fall. The roughly 3.5 million fast food workers are by far the largest group of minimum wage earners in the United States. The only Americans who consistently earn a lower hourly wage are migrant farm workers. Which example best synthesizes the information in the original passage?
In the 1990s, fat food workers, whose earnings were only slightly higher than those migrant farm workers , saw the value of their salaries decline even as other American workers were getting paid more (Scholosser 6)
