To Fix National Poverty Crisis, Study Shows Even $15 Wage Won't Do the Job

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. I guess that also depends on the part of the Country you live in. In my area, people making $15/hr

live like kings... hell, even at $12/hr! It all depends on housing prices, rent prices and utilities. The plants around here that pay good money have people that started at entry level jobs right out of high school at 17-18 years old, and it's not uncommon to see 26-27 year old men and women living in nice homes and driving $30,000 trucks and cars. Those are the the smart ones, though. The dumb ones try to take the "easy way" and get caught up in the almost epidemic, for this small town, use, abuse and selling of prescription pain pills or methamphetamine and wind up in and out of jail all the time, then eventually dead.

I knew one guy who had a wife and a new baby, was making over $800/wk, got paid on Thursday and was broke before the weekend was over from spending his money on pills. They lived with his parents, didn't have to pay rent, and their vehicle was paid for. That's just sad, isn't it?

Peace,

Ghost