A wage increase to $7.25 would help, but “it wouldn’t put anybody in the clear,” said Cara Prince, 41, of Louisville, Kentucky. She has been working for a temporary agency for two years, doing factory, warehouse and restaurant work at $6 an hour.“There’s a whole lot I can’t do,” because of the low pay, she said. “By the time they take taxes out, there’s nothing left. Just $23 a day.”
Minimum wage hike won’t go far – Stocks & Economy – MSNBC.com
Finally the Congress is proposing to raise the minimum wage. This increase will be the first in almost ten years. The proposed pay rate is going to be $7.25 an hour; as we all read in Nickel and Dimed, Barbara had a hard time budgeting when she was making seven to eight dollars per hour, and she only had to take care of herself. It is absurd to say this raise wouldn’t help, but the fact is, it is impossible to take care of a family making this little. This article talks of a women who began to work for minimum wage, after she started working, the government took away her assistance: her food stamps. She realized that she was actually worse off working, so she quit. Why would any sane person leave their children to join the workforce, if when they did they would be worse off? The answer is, they wouldn’t! Our government has to help these people, obviously when the aforementioned women went out and found a job, she was trying to better her family, instead of being helped, she was penalized. If our welfare system isn’t fixed, people in this situation will have no motivation to get a job; and on the flip-side, we will pay for them to live for as long as they live.
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