From this week's discussion I saw the real minimum wage needed for a family based on how many/ how old the members in the family. When you take those numbers and include the gap between the richest 30% and poorest 30%, there is a great disparity for people who have and have-not. In communities where there are less people with disposable income, there is most likely a correlation to lower pay, longer work hours, and less time with family. The minimum wage has a direct correlation to lifting people from poverty. If the bottom 30% of people in America have an average disposable income of 11% there is little room for savings, donations, and time contributions to the community. As we learned in our budget projects, workers and especially workers with families must make hard decisions and are sometimes in lose-lose situations.
Who do you think is poor, both in the United States and globally?"
Based on this week' reading people who make the minimum and below thw minimum wage can be classfied as poor. For instance a waitress making $2.13 an hour is generally unable to salvage enough tips to make a decent living. Gloabally women a generall poorer due to lack of education, lack of access to jobs, and if employed lower wages.
"Why do you believe people are poor in the United States and globally?"
Based on the reading the system that supports a federal minimum wage that is unsustainable to a decent living created a cycle of poorer communities.
What do you think is being done about poverty, and how well do you think that poverty is being addressed?
There are too few organizations addressing this problem for instance 9 to 5 and others
What do you personally think should be done about poverty in the United States and globally?
In our readings we discussed the fact and myth about raising the minimum wage and how it will promote self sufficiency among Americans.
Below is:
* a diagram of the United States and which states pay above, below, and level with the minimum wage.
* a diagram based on the 2008 presidential elections for Democratic and Republican states
* a digram outlining the richest and poorest states.
Observing which state are politically Democratic or Republican, there seems to be a connection between a state's political ideology and their stance on minimum wage. For instance, states that are recognizably Democrat like California and Maine pay more than the minimum wage. Where in Republican states like Georgia and Alabama, the minimum wage is less or none. Also a correlation between the states with money and their minimum wage rates.
 | States with minimum wage rates higher than the Federal |  | States with no minimum wage law | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | States with minimum wage rates the same as the Federal |  | States with minimum wage rates lower than the Federal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | American Samoa has special minimum wage rates  Showing latest available data. Click on a region to zoom in and then mouseover to view state names. Show map full screen
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