Memphis minimum wage

Reading Memphis and Shelby County Living Wages Campaigns article it talks about the fact that people work hard only to bring home the minimum amount of money for their family. The economy has risen to the point that minimum wage can not support one person living in an apartment on there own. The price for living gets higher and higher each year and the minimum wage does not to rise with the prices that inflate in society. The wants of an average person are endless and the income amount at minimum wage is very limited and demand is always rising that gives store chance to flirt with their prices. Coalition efforts of 42 local congregations and faith groups, community organizations, and labor unions feel that no one should work full-time and still be poor at the end of the day. With that being said and talking to heart Memphis and the Shelby County Government are making an attempt stop in the act of subsidizing poverty to enforce paying health insured workers with a $10 an hour living wage and the ones without health insurance $12 dollars.