$7.25 per hour makes minimum wage jobs kind of like...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

...weight watchers dinners; if you get 2 or 3 of them, you won't starve.

[KamaAina]

1. Here you go.

[Tobin S.]

2. My wife and I combined make $29 an hour

and I don't think we are even in the middle class. My heart goes out to people trying to live a good life on low wages.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. People all over are falling off the economic cliff

Unemployment and underemployment are eroding wages and costs are rising regularly.

Why is it no one (in government) can just adopt the perspective of families of various income levels ($0 to whatever middle class is now) and implement changes to keep everyone covered for food, shelter and healthcare?

[Tobin S.]

4. The Republicans say we don't haved the money for that kind of thing

but if they want to bomb someone they sure manage to find the money. Kill people = good. Support people = bad.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. And why can we spend more to bomb and fight...

...than we do to help refugees?

[ohnoyoudidnt]

6. There's big money in weapons of death.

Feeding and housing the hungry, not so much.

[Mr.Bill]

7. I like the way Chris Rock describes it.

Being paid minimum wage is like having your boss say every day, "I'd like to pay you less, but it's against the law."