Jackson Rogers
Period 4
Morgon Spurlock and his girlfriend spent 30 days living on minimum wage. They worked minimum wage jobs as landskapers, construction workers, and cofee shop workers. They are barely earning enough to get by and have to buy from charity shopes. Morgon’s girlfriend breaks down emotionally because of how sorry she feels for the people who spend their lives living like that. After about a week, she contracts a urinary tract infection and has a huge medical bill along with Morgon hurting his hand and having a huge bill as well. Multiple full days of work’s income is spent on hospital finances alone. Eventually they bring in their niece and nefews and they start arguing in front of them about the money issues, even though it has only been a few days. All they have been eating is beans and rice and they have bare minimum amounts of furnature. When Morgon’s girlfriends birthday comes along, they have to find cheap ways to have fun so they dont argue about money again and go broke.
