In New York, it's almost impossible to live off of minimum wage. It's like the rich keep getting richer and richer and the poor don't get a dime. The prices of living in New York keep skyrocketing. Popular housing areas in New York becoming gentrified with new people who actually can afford the living prices, making it so that they have to up the prices for families that have been living there for years! People are starting families and having more mouths to feed but it's as if they want the poor to stay poor. Because you can really only provide for yourself on $10 an hour pay, especially when they cut the hours down since minimum wage went up. You can't get in 40 hours a week anymore and don't get me started on what your paycheck actually looks like at the end of the month after they take out taxes.