[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by karostay

Even at $15 an hour how can anyone make livable wage these days
Car insurance $90 month car payment $250 Fuel $200 month cable $150, cell phone $125 Rent $900 to $1200 month electric $100 month food at least $300
health insurance $500 plus other expenses

I'd like to know exactly when it was decided that the minimum wage was supposed to be a livable wage? I worked minimum wage jobs when I was in high school and college. I lived with my parents. I didn't have a car, I took public transportation. I don't ever think that I or anyone else working those kinds of jobs in the 60s and 70s expected to be able to live on our own or raise a family on a minimum wage job. I knew kids back then that wanted to live on their own and worked two minimum wage jobs to share an apartment with a few other kids.

This kind of thinking has gotten out of control. Just because you work 40 hours a week does not guarantee that you'll be able to take care of yourself.

Minimum wage is for entry level unskilled work not for supporting ones self or raising a family. If you want to be independent then I would suggest that you go and get some education or some salable skills so that you would qualify for a job making a livable wage.