I hate to be blunt, but $10 per hour is what that kind of work is worth. If you’re 40 and trying to support a family of 4 on $20,000 per year, then you probably made some bad choices along the way. These jobs should be for entry level people, those who have retired and are looking for additional income or those who are working and going to school to try and move up. In addition, the high minimum wage drives up the cost of unskilled labor. Its artificial and must be abolished.
The majority of jobs in the US fall under the general umbrella of “entry level”. Real wages for labor in this country have cratered over the last 20 years sending millions into social assistance programs, and stampeding voters into the waiting arms of socialist demagogues like Obama.
Wages in this country are not “artificially high”. Costs of living are considerably higher in the US than overseas, and $10/hr isn’t much over subsistence level in most areas of the country after you factor in things like rent, electricity, fuel, food, and healthcare.
Waging reverse class-warfare is every bit as much a race to the bottom as socialism. Bad politics and bad economics. There are other words for entry-level workers. They’re called “consumers”, “voters”, “citizens”, and “neighbors”.