Citizens work day and day out, break their backs and struggle for long periods of time, all for what? All for a minimum wage job that barely keeps you afloat in life. All for someone to wonder, can I do more? Who can help me? The government should always be there to help support it’s citizens and make sure that they possess anything that they need to be able to survive in that country. People in this country slave hours and hours,and some may work harder than citizens who get paid more than them, away at their minimum wage jobs, while others just sit back and enjoy the view from their penthouse. They are taken advantage of and are used in ways that benefit the government, not themselves. Hardworking citizens will live their life paycheck to paycheck, while big industry …show more content…
It is true, minimum wage rates have gone up as the country has developed. In 1990, the rate was only at $3.80 while it is now $7.25, but it has increased because of inflation (Evans). The inflation of food, cars, housing,and living in general. But it hasn’t increased enough. It hasn’t inflated enough in order for the average American citizen do what they have the right to do, live. It is the government’s responsibility and duty to take of the people that call this nation there home and they are failing to do so by having such low rates for jobs that pay minimum wage. There are more than 28 million in today's society, which is around a quarter of the workforce, earn less than $9.04 an hour which transfers to $18,800 per year. That income establishes the poverty line in the United States so a quarter of the workforce is or is on the line of poverty (Conlin). The United States is supposedly one of the wealthiest countries on earth, but about 25% of the country is either in or on the line of