Also trying to give their families some money to live on and creating a monthly food menu for them, finding rent and child care 'children is not easy. to do when you have a limited amount of money for each thing. Looking at the results for each group, we can see that each group had a total income of $30,000 or more. This amount is above the poverty line. When you look at the budgets that the groups gave their families and compare them to those of the Neumanns, you can really see that each group's budget would give the families additional money to spend on food or produce. first necessity that would be necessary but not necessary at that time. . The Neumanns didn't have a life like that, they basically live paycheck to paycheck (Two Americans). With the budgets the groups gave their family of four, this was a budget for a family whose main contributors did not work for minimum wage. Families would take better-paid jobs that would give them some leeway to live. In the article Nickel-and-Dimed, On (not) getting by in America, we can see that living on minimum wage is not an easy living situation. Barbara, the author, entered the workforce to see how living on the social minimum would affect someone's life. She went undercover for a month, the discoveries she