Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
The lady in the example is 33 has a diabetes, 3 kids to support, and presumably also have to support for her disabled mother. To make the matter even more sad she had no higher level education. I can imagine how hard and tough it is for her. But I don&#x27;t think raising the minimum wage or a mandated salary increase&#x2F;promotion is the real solution here. The real solutions would be to:
1. Educate parents on the importance of children education.
2. Educate people to not have kids before they&#x27;re financially and emotionally ready.
3. The importance and responsibilities that come with having kids.<p>Having been born in a developing countries and went to US for university and work sometime there, I can say that US minimum salary and the other related perks are already significantly way better of most of emerging countries.