How minimum wage hike impacted low income workers.

Companies respond to minimum wage increases

Children from wealthy families do markedly better in school. This has a serious impact on their future earning capabilities leading to the same struggle being faced by their own children.

More programs need to be put in place to stop child abuse and neglect. Abused children have more physical and mental problems than their peers. They are likely to become abusers themselves. We need to find a way to help those who have been abused and prevent the cycle from being repeated.

Good health is intrinsic to a persons well being. Those who do not have access to decent healthcare cannot have the same opportunity at life as those who do.

Access to healthy food has become a struggle for residents of low income urban neighborhoods. This lack has been linked to physical and mental health problems. This is a growing problem across the country and needs to be rectified.

The gap between the 1% and the rest of the world is growing. The opinion that those that are in the top 1% have earned, and continue to earn that type of income. The reality is that research has proven this is not the case. Research has also proven that those who are not born to the upper class do not have nearly the same opportunities to succeed in life. The system is corrupt. The rich are growing richer off the work of the poor, who are becoming impoverished.