30 days on minimum wage

After watching 30 days on minimum wage, it really opened my eyes to the people around me. For all that i know the person sitting right next to me could have gone to bed hungry last night while i went to bed on a full stomach. I never thought that living on minimum wage could be so hard on a family of not even four but two people. On a daily basis i never really stopped and thought about what kind of expenses my parents spend day to day or month to month. In the end, it ends up adding to a lot of money. I now realize how fortunate i am to be able to have a roof over my head and have a house to go home to every day and a bed with clean sheets to sleep in. I could never imagine having to eat rice and beans everyday because that was all i could afford. Ive had the experience of going to a store and not having enough money to buy everything i wanted, but they weren't necessities, they were extras. Looking at society in a big picture now, i now realize that poor do get poorer and the rich do get richer.