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Essay / Lew Prince, Does the American Dream Need a Fair Minimum Wage?
“Workers appeal to taxpayers” also follows Andrew Olson, a McDonald's worker who earns $8.60 an hour, and his fiancée who earns minimum wage in their experience below the poverty line . “Their salaries are so meager [...] that they rely on food stamps and Medicaid to survive,” says Kelly of Olson's current living status, a lifestyle that most Americans live involuntarily. Besides the benefits destroyed by business owners and taxpayers, workers living on poor wages turn out to be the most positively and heavily affected; the three point nine percent of working citizens are treated unfairly by big business. “Workers Appeal to Taxpayers” ends with a quote from Olson: “Just because I work in fast food, does that mean I should just make do