Minimum Wage Project

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by Cassandra Ramirez0 views·Updated Mar 15, 2021
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  1. living off a minimum wage By CASSANDRA Ramirez.
  2. What is minimum wage?
  3. Minimum wage is the lowest amount of money an employer
  4. can legally pay their employees.
  5. In Texas, minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
  6. For someone who works full time, 40 hours a week,
  7. they'll earn around $1160 a month.
  8. That's $290 a week and $58 a day.
  9. I'll be living in the timber Run apartments.
  10. The location is 13,000 wood Forest Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77
  11. 70 15 It's one bedroom.
  12. One bathroom was 504 square feet.
  13. It's a gated community with on site management, on site
  14. on site maintenance, um, a pool, a laundry facility and
  15. ever this parking.
  16. It also includes a dishwasher, expensive closet, balcony or patio,
  17. a dining area, fully equipped kitchen ceiling, fan carpet and
  18. air condition.
  19. The four plan is this.
  20. As you can see, it has the bedroom, the bathroom,
  21. the closet, the living area and the kitchen.
  22. Now the daycare.
  23. I'll be letting my son attend the apple of my
  24. eye academy.
  25. Its location is 690 Normandy Street Houston, Texas, 79 0
  26. 15. UM, it's open Monday through Friday, six through six.
  27. Every day.
  28. It's privately owned in the A park, the approximate employees
  29. or 11 to 50 employees.
  30. It allows Children six weeks old to fifth graders to
  31. attend the maximum Children.
  32. The maximum is the maximum Children is 132.
  33. It is rated 4.7 stars, and the prices start at
  34. $105 a week for transportation.
  35. I will need to take the bust since I don't
  36. have a car.
  37. Um, and since I'll be taking the bus every single
  38. day, I may as well get a MetroCard um, which
  39. I will be placing $125 a month on because each
  40. ride is a dollar and 25 cents and my son
  41. will be able to ride for free because he is
  42. under five years old.
  43. Um, there aren't many stops, so I will still take
  44. the bus, but I will have to take a five.
  45. I will have to walk for seven minutes to my
  46. son's daycare, and I'm doing this because it's a better
  47. option than walking 20 straight minutes to the daycare with
  48. a toddler.
  49. Now for college, I will be going to San Jacinto
  50. College North Campus.
  51. The location is 5800 Vivaldi Road, Houston, Texas.
  52. 77049 um, for three hour course it is $234 for
  53. in district students.
  54. Um, And since there aren't any bus routes here, I
  55. will have to take a lift, which will cost about
  56. 6 to $8 for a ride.
  57. And I work from 7 to 3.
  58. 30. So I will be able to go straight to
  59. class after work for my half an hour, an hour
  60. and a half class, and then go pick up my
  61. son around 5.
  62. 30 before the day care closes at six.
  63. And I will have to take lift to get to
  64. the daycare.
  65. And that will cost around 9 to $12 and 8
  66. to $10 to get home for expenses.
  67. Health insurance total for me and my son is $200.
  68. Um, from my phone, it will be $35 a month.
  69. Utilities are $100 a month clothing for my son and
  70. I is an approximate of $150 a month toiletries.
  71. $30 a month for Internet since I will be going
  72. to school and will possibly have homework, Um, I got
  73. the cheapest option, which is $50 a month for about
  74. 100 m p m b p.
  75. S. I forgot what that stands for.
  76. Um, of speed and for food, about $400 a month.
  77. Social service programs.
  78. Um, I qualify.
  79. Or I can potentially qualify for food stamps, WIC and
  80. Children's Medicaid because I meet the income requirements and my
  81. child is under five years old.
  82. And now the total monthly cost I've started with $1660
  83. with housing being five, $199 daycare $420 a month.
  84. Metro 125 a month lived about 240 a month College
  85. to 34 health insurance, 200 phone, 35 utilities.
  86. 100 toiletries, 30 Internet, 50 food, 400.
  87. The total That all adds up to $2433 a month.
  88. And subtracting that from my starting amount, I will be
  89. left with negative $773 and that's it.
  90. Thank you