Also trying to get their families to have a small amount of money to live on and create a monthly menu of food for them, find rent and l Childcare is not easy to do when you have a limited amount of money for everything. Looking at the results for each group, you can see that each group had a total income of $30,000 or more. This amount is above the poverty level. When you look at the budgets that the groups gave to their families and compare them to the Neumanns', you can actually see that each group's budget would give the families extra money to spend on food or basic necessities that would be needed but not necessary at that time. . The Neumanns have had no such life, they practically live paycheck to paycheck (Two American). With the budgets the groups gave their family of four, this was a budget for a family whose primary contributors did not work minimum wage jobs. Families would work in better paying jobs that would give the family some leeway to live on. In the article Nickel-and-Dimed, On (not) getting by in America, you can see that living on minimum wage is not an easy situation. Barbara, the author, entered the workforce to see how living with minimal impact would impact someone's life. She went undercover for a month, she finds out