Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.