Welcome back to the workweek, Breaking Bronx readers. Hope you enjoyed the long weekend, if you happened to have off. Here are some local news stories we’re following this morning:

A new study that looks at the earnings of retail workers found that those in the Bronx make less than in any other borough, with a mean pay of $8 an hour. Some chains pay their Manhattan workers more than their Bronx workers for the same job, the study found. Mayor Bloomberg, meanwhile, said in his State of the City speech last week that he supports raising the city’s minimum wage. But the Bronx-based “living wage” bill, which sought to up pay for workers in city-subsidized development projects, would not do much for retail workers if the latest, watered-down version that Council Speaker Christine Quinn is backing is what’s ultimately passed. The “compromise” version of the legislation would require firms receiving subsidies – but not their retail tenants – to pay the higher wages.

Members of the Caldwell Temple A.M.E. Zion Church in Morrisania marked the Martin Luther King holiday by giving back at the parish’s soup kitchen.

Ryan Aguari, the 11-year-old boy who was shot in his Fordham area apartment building last week, tells the New York Post he’s traumatized by the incident, which landed him in the hospital for five days after being shot in the right hip. Ryan, who was not the intended target, is staying at a new apartment since the shooting.

The Times and WNYC’s SchoolBook blog interviews principal Cheryl Tyler, of PS 277 in the South Bronx.

The Hunts Point Market isn’t the only business that the Bronx and neighboring New Jersey are battling over: according to the Daily News, both are vying to be the new home for Fresh Direct, the grocery delivery company,  which is seeking a new headquarters. New York is trying to lure the company to Harlem River Yards, in the South Bronx.

Students at Morris High School, where Mayor Bloomberg delivered his State of the City address last week, say the school got a fresh coat of paint and other cosmetic improvements in preparation for the big event–but that the city has skimped on making more needed repairs at the building.

A man got a shocking $45 million from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, thanks to a computer glitch.