No one is suppose to be able to raise a family on minimum wage. They are not meant for people with families!
If a person chooses to have kids, and stay at these entry level jobs, they will have a low income life. It's not rocket science. People will choose the standard of living they want.
It's a choice to have sex and get pregnant. If you choose to work minimum wage jobs, you better be choosing to use birth control and wait for children until you can afford them.
If two people both working minimum wage jobs, do not have children, they can get by with a minimal lifestyle.
If people want more out of life, they will take jobs that require more physical labor, more pressure, more abillities that make their service more vauable to the company and thereby pay more.
Many factory jobs require little ability to run assembly lines etc.
Digging ditches or other labor jobs require little schooling, etc. but they pay more.
Life is a choice to us all. It is the total opposite of freedom when a Big Brother Government forces higher pay rates across the board on companies that may put them out of business and make it impossible to compete with other nations.
When Government forces business to pay more, whether it be healthcare or minimum wage, those costs will ALWAYS be passed on to the consumers which creates inflation and lowers everyone's quality of life.
After inflation, these people who now make more from a higher minimum wage are in the same spot they were before the inflation.
Did you happen to notice what happened when Government made it easy for students to get college loans with low interest rates? What happened? Colleges charged more because they knew students would take out loans for high tuitions they could not afford.
That is why College tuitions costs so much. When you give people more free stuff, or wages beyond the work level, the market will raise the cost on everyone.
WAKE UP! The free market has proven to work and socialism has proven to not work!
Have you noticed what has happened to our welfare roles after eight long years of a closet Socialist Democrat administration? With every added social program, with every lowering of requirements to get free stuff, the welfare roles have grown and grown and grown.
When you make it easy for people to take the easy way out of life. THEY WILL!
What do you think will happen to those factory workers making $15 per hour, when they see entry level jobs with no pressure or special abilities paying the same?
They will demand more money for their skills and the cycle continues...INFLATION!
What do you suppose will happen to all the retired senior citizens who are on a fixed income when it costs them so much more to go to fast food restaurants, or buy the simple necessities of life?
They will be hurt, not that people like you can ever think past your own selfish desires.
