Different Opinions From Barbara Ehrenreich and David Brooks

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Policy Institute, after many studies, declared that a "living wage" was approximately $30,000 a year for a family of one adult and two children. This is not the minimum as it includes health insurance, telephone, and licensed childcare but not such luxuries as restaurant meals, Internet access, cigarettes, or alcohol. The "living wage" works out to be about $14 an hour. Unfortunately, over 60 percent of American workers earn less than that per hour (Ehrenreich 213). In addition, Ehrenreich emphasizes low income people are encountering many problems, such as, hard to find affordable housing, most of them don't have health insurance and shortage of living necessaries because of extremely low salaries. Therefore, Ehrenreich thinks American government should practice new policies to help low wage workers. She also indicates welfare policies are very useful and necessary for those people at the bottom of the economy because government aid may not affect middle and upper class a lot but ...

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