Let's just put this in perspective. Minimum wage is 15k a year. And that's only IF you manage to find a job that is going to give you 40 hours a week as most minimum wage jobs don't. Poverty line for a family of four is 23k. If you can't manage a family off of 50k a year you need to recheck your spending priorities. I know families that live off of two minimum wage jobs with two kids. Dudes concept of how far money goes is clearly -blam!-ed.