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>>tysone+(OP)
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't think raising the minimum wage or a mandated salary increase/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're financially and emotionally ready. 3. The importance and responsibilities that come with having kids.

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.

>>blacks+oW
Okay but changing the minimum wage would have a real impact in her life now going forward. Does your plan retroactively change her state?

Also, there will always be some worse off country to say "look it could be worse, see how lucky you are?" I think that is such a disingenuous and irrelevant point.

>>hedvig+Zz1
What I'm trying to say is that increasing minimum wage is not a sustainable solution. Salary should really be determined by economic rules of supply and demand. While it's true that Government needs to step in here and there to ensure fairness, I don't think Vanessa's case falls into it.

This might sound harsh, but I do think it's better of for her to hand her children over to foster care or something. Having to support 3 kids with such salary is just too much for her. What I was proposing was "how to prevent future Vanessa"