content: Eh.. I don't agree with a 15 dollar wage and some of those things.  I'm in IT at a hospital and fix computers on the side. Food services - something the hospital could not survive without - routinely has some of the most poor employees in the hospital. This is one of the cheaper areas to live in the US; yet I get a fair number of checks signed by grandmothers, fathers, and other extended family members. I don't even charge these people much because I know they can't afford it.  Even if they go to school they are stuck in this job for YEARS and without their family/friends supporting them they would not be able to afford my (cheap for them - I charge regular rates for others) services. Also if we look at productivity per employee vs corporate wages, previous ratios of wages:cost-of-living, etc -- the poor are pretty fucked in the US.