Venezuela's monthly inflation rate dropped for the second straight month in June,... but the annual rate remains well over 400-thousand percent.<br />The latest rate nearly halved from over 800-thousand percent in May.<br />According to an opposition lawmaker Wednesday,... workers' salaries are still not nearly enough to cover the rising cost of consumer goods in the collapsing South American economy.<br />The official minimum wage is 40-thousand bolivars a month,... equivalent to less than six U.S. dollars.<br />
