Entry level jobs are not meant to support a family of four.
I know some people would think that they weren't living if they didn't have the money to pay for a cell phone, cable, internet connection, take out food and designer jeans, but many of us lived long portions of our lives without them.
We also lived with air conditioning in our homes and cars.
Go to Bangladesh and Rio if you want to see what a real living wage is.
"Go to Bangladesh and Rio if you want to see what a real living wage is."
Exactly! People have no perspective on economic realities. Not everybody can have a house with a white picket fence. If we tried to make it so, we would all end up far poorer. People resent the capitalist system because it leads to inequality, but they don't realize that it's the capitalist system that allows us to live on what we deem a "living wage" in the first place.
Correction: We also lived withOUT air conditioning in our homes and cars.
Entry level jobs should support one person with at least modest shelter, food, transportation (preferably at least a used car and insurance) and a little extra to go to a movie. The only single people with lower echelon jobs have to live with someone or in a shelter to get by.
Actually jobs like Walmart would only support an individual, most likely living at home with their elderly parents or shaking in an apartment with others. It may support a one job couple, but they would be at poverty level, unless they were retired on pensions. I honestly don't know how anyone in todays world could live on 300 bucks a week.