Better employment means better minimum wage that will keep individuals earning enough to keep them out of poverty. Not a few or a couple, but many states and municipalities have all uplifted their minimum wages knowing that the federal minimum wage was just too low and waiting was not going to change anything. According to the article, “$10.10 Minimum Wage Could Actually Create New Jobs: Study” from The Huffington Post by Jillian Berman the EPI’s report concludes a growing body of evidence that, “raising the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 per hour would help a large swath of Americans...that a $10.10 minimum wage would have been enough to push more than half of the nation’s 10-million plus working poor out of poverty in 2011” (Berman Para. 5). The minimum wage that low-waged workers earn for a family of two is not even enough to support basic needs and living expenses. In fact a study from a July analysis from Wider …show more content…
We can see that in Ehrenreich’s book called, Nickel and Dimed, when the author who heads out to experience what it is like to live on minimum wage, talks about the people she works with at a fast food restaurant. She writes that, “in addition to the less-than-nurturing management style, is that this job shows no sign of being financially viable” (Ehrenreich 20). She mentions that working as a waitress under the minimum wage is not enough to be motivated and is not enough to even support just herself. She also gathers information from her co-workers, one of them known as Gail, who also live on minimum wage and is, “sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week. Her roommate a male friend, has begun hitting on her, driving her nuts, but the rent would be impossible alone” (Ehrenreich 20). Living on minimum wage generates the struggle that many individuals and families have to live through. Raising the minimum wage would eliminate a lot of people from being so limited and could provide people a chance to aid