The Pros And Cons Of Living Wage

Have you ever stopped to think what people living off of living wage go through? Does it positively affect our society today? How many of us even know about living wage. I feel living wage does not positively affect our society today because there are a lot of us out there that do not even know living wage exists. I feel if we knew more about it and if it was more common it would affect our society more.
First off many people think that living wage is like minimum wage but it is not. They are two entirely different things. “Living wage is the amount of pay considered sufficient for you and your family to cover basic costs of living in a specific location” (Grossman 1). Minimum wage is the lowest possible wage an employer can pay their employee. Minimum wage does not help out as a whole unlike living wage. Living wage
“ I feel people take living wage granted. I feel people tend to mistake their needs for their wants” (Garcia verbally stated). For example; many people say they need a phone instead of using the money they pay their phone bill with on more important things like food, health care, electricity, etc. Families living on living wage learn to know the difference between necessities and wants. People on living wage do not live like most of us in the world, many times they are the families our parents tell us about, the families our parents want us to give our unused toys and clothes to. An example of this is a women, Carman Iverson, in Kansas City, Missouri, she and her four children are living off her minimum wage job. Carman earns about 400 to 600 dollars a month. The month she receives a month does not even pay her rent which is 650 dollars a month. They receive 543 dollars a month in food stamps, but that does not always last until the end of the month because her children are growing and do eat a