North Americans have been a part of an era that struggles with low minimum wage that has resulted poverty in many areas in Canada and United States. Having to work several jobs to support family is a struggle for many growing families. This issue has always been the top headline on newspaper and news channel with workers going on strike or not able to afford going to school yet, the focus is taken away by politicians making statements of the change they will make. People are still waiting on the change, politicians claimed they would make.
The struggle of Americans working for $7.25 an hour is sickening. Gas rates are high; groceries rates are high. What can a person buy with $58 which a person receives on an 8-hour shift per day without tax being cut. Companies like Walmart and McDonalds pays their employees minimum wage. They discriminate by hiring certain people like, teenagers and unmarried women. The government on the other hand is too focused on elections that they are ignoring issues with poverty and low- minimum wage in the United States (Surowiecki, 2013). The media plays an important role in advertising low-minimum wage, but the focus changes to the elections. There is a
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Employees not being able to get health benefits, money to support family or to educate themselves or their children. Though Americans are discussing the matter of raising the minimum wage, British Columbia is forming a plan to end poverty by raising minimum wage and benefits. I am having a hard time understanding why both the countries are not acting to end the suffering of people living in poverty? What factors are important when they are raising minimum wage? I volunteered in a food bank last year and the number of people that come every day is jaw dropping. There are so many in need yet we are unable to support them by raising minimum wage. With the new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, there is hope in ending