Struggles of the minimum wage worker

Minimum wage sucks!  I have no idea how some families are able to survive with most members making little more than minimum wage, much less individuals with no support or minors to claim??  I did the math.  Working at 7.25 an hour, even with a 40 hour week, will not even amount to 300 dollars per week.  It is these circumstances that force some Americans to take on two full time jobs, especially single parents.  There are 168 hours total in each week.  Two full time jobs will take 70 to 80 hours out of that.  If one wanted to sleep at least 7 hours a night, that would leave just under 40 hours of "free time".

You would think that a minimum wage job would be easy to obtain.  Wrong!  Albeit I am a college student with little work experience, each of the minimum wage jobs I have obtained were only after a great deal of time looking around and applying to countless employers.  I have never even gotten an interview unless I applied to 10 or more businesses/employers.  If you count all the man hours put into job hunting, it makes the minimum wage value seem even more thin and stretched.

Good news though.  Minimum wage is going to be raised, rather significantly compared to previous raises, from what I've heard.  It will certainly be a nice couple of weeks, maybe even months.  Nice, that is, until inflation sets in and the value of our dollars gets reduced down to make minimum wage feel the same as it always has.

What about food stamps and welfare?  Sure those things can keep a family afloat, but think about what it does to the moral of that family.  Do you think the parents feel good about not being able to provide for their kids and themselves, by themselves?  Do they even care about their pride at that point.  Not to mention those individuals that take advantage of the system to get more welfare support, leaving less for those that really need it.

The true solution may lie in the distribution of wealth here in America.  There is simply not a large enough percentage of this nation's money being circulated in the lower and middle classes.  The majority of our country's wealth is owned by a very small minority of disgustingly wealthy individuals. Sure some of them donate to certain charities, but the sad truth is that a lot of the charities they give to aren't even for the poor in our country but for third world countries.  Worry about OUR country first people!

I may be up on my soapbox right now for little to no avail but these are things that cannot be thought about enough.  What do you think?