Post 15: Poverty

This week in soc we watched a movie showing how hard it is living on minimal wage and about how life is like in poverty and how hard it is to get by living on minimum wage. 

It's hard to think how that life is like that since we arnt the ones who have to live in poverty. To us minimum wage is just the payment we get for some extra spending money. And what we don't realize and what we saw in the movie is that this number is people living money. For only about 8 dollars an hour people work day in and day out working just to make maybe $50 and this their money to buy food, pay bills and do everything that's necessary for daily life. After seeing something like that  it makes me value what I have a lot more and look at those people who work these low wage jobs a lot heigher.