Minimum Wage Whats The Big Deal ?

This week in class we watched a TV series called 30 days. In this episode a man and his wife lived a month on minimum wage. Well your thinking right now whats the big deal its not that bad well that's what i thought coming from a middle class family getting to do just about everything I want and get what ever I want. Not in a spoiled way for example if I want an ipod i either ask for it for my birthday or the holidays, or I save my money up and buy it. Well compared to how this guys life was I was living royalty. Well, as the month went on this guy and his wife went down hill. From having to walk to work to waking up at 5am to sit around hoping to get work that day. There workday was rough it was manual labor for 8 hours a day. There home life even worse they were living in a shady part of town in a run down apartment with ANTS in it. They couldn't really afford food except for beans, they had to go to a free store to get hand me down cloths and what not. Compared to there previous life they were living in misery. But were does the lesson come in, well at the end of the month after saving every penny by walking to work, eating cheap food, and etc. They were in debit still after simple hospital bills they owed about $500, so what I realized is people in poverty/ minimum wage don't really have the chance to move up in life. Even if Low income family's want to climb the economic latter they really can't. You need money to go to college which they can't afford. People usually end up in the social class they are raised in because of economic restrictions. That's the big deal of minimum wage.