If low-wage workers got the minimum wage increased from $7.25 an hour to the $15 an hour that they have been demanding in protests, it would still leave many families dependent on social services, because earning more paradoxically can create more food insecurity.
The complications of families that need help were highlighted recently by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision to make food assistance more easily available for Pennsylvanians who had been shut out — not because the applicants had too much money, but because the test for food assistance was cumbersome….
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