Imagine you are a single mother or father working a minimum wage job to care for you and your three children.
You make $7.25 each hour, maxed out at 40 hours a week, as a part-time employee. Before taxes, that brings you to $290 in earnings in one week, or about $1,160 in one month (approximately four weeks).
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