The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.