Calculating the basic needs of a single parent with two children and seeing how it matched up to a fulltime minimum wage job was very sad.\u00a0 Looking at the areas of rent, utilities, transportation, clothing, child care, furniture, laundry, cleaning supplies, communication, medical, and entertainment was very eye opening because the two do not match up.\u00a0 Living off of basic necessities for a parent and her two children costs more than the income of a full time minimum wage worker.\u00a0 This explains the problem our people are having making it through the month.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t possible to have a comfortable life when working full-time at any location with minimum wage as the income.\u00a0 So, these are full time workers, going in 5 days a week, yet they still have to go to food banks and shelters in order to provide their children a decent life.\u00a0 The question is how do we fix this problem? How are we supposed to help people get out of poverty when even working full time jobs leaves them with basic needs unmet?\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t even begin to address the problem of people working part-time because they cannot find full time jobs.\u00a0 A common response would be, well she or he should not have had children, but that is not a justifiable answer because there are too many single parents in this dilemma right now.\u00a0 People have had children and they are now stuck, with no way to get out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Calculating the basic needs of a single parent with two children and seeing how it matched up to a fulltime minimum wage job was very sad.\u00a0 Looking at the areas of rent, utilities, transportation, clothing, child care, furniture, laundry, cleaning supplies, communication, medical, and entertainment was very eye opening because the two do not match … Continue reading No Way Out<\/span>