Stat of the day: If min wage was increased for inflation since 1968, it would be $10.90/hr. Up to this point, weve spent $62, including some prescriptions ($24). At the beginning of this challenge, I was in DC and the family was home in Ohio, which unfortunately led to a couple of bad purchases on my part…that being pizza and fast food. My family fared better than I did – they were able to get some staples, such as rice pasta. Saturday we picked up a couple of pears, about a pound of bananas, some chocolate chip cookie mix, creamer, popcorn, and packet of Kool-Aid for Bella to color strands in her hair ($12). After church on today, we stopped at a farmers stand while driving home. We got 13 ears of corn, 5 bell peppers, 6 peaches, 6 squash, 3 zucchini and a watermelon ($23). Hoping this purchase, along with some more eggs, can carry us for a couple more days. After we drove home, we had pancakes for lunch. We have allocated about $25-30 dollars for transportation. As Ive said, Andrea is a teacher and off for the summer, if it was during the school year transportation would have been closer to $60 for a normal week. As I sat in church this morning, I contemplated the fact if minimum wage was higher, families would have extra money to throw in the basket. What would an increase in the wage mean for our states, communities or local our churches that do so much? Around $30 and some food for the next four days.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:53:07 +0000
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