Not only have our minimum wage laws not been updated to realistic levels, neither has the poverty level. Half of Americans are indeed too poor to support themse

Not only have our minimum wage laws not been updated to realistic levels, neither has the poverty level. Half of Americans are indeed too poor to support themselves. They are not even making what the minimum wage should be and should get government assistance. Hard to keep calling America a developed country when easily half of its population cannot support itself and most of that half is not supported by the government. Definitely can't call that democratic either.