Most people have no idea that wages and prices have a basis in reality. They can’t be arbitrarily changed just because someone wishes they were different. It makes me so mad that no so-called reporter ever asks why these people have children they cannot afford to feed, where are the fathers and why aren’t they paying support, why can’t other members of the family work, how much taxpayer funded goodies are they receiving, and why doesn’t she try to get a promotion or train for a better job?
I would love to see any reporter ask the questions you posed, not only because liberal heads everywhere would explode but because it would put a stop to this “living wage” nonsense. Political correctness forbids those questions and professional victim groups know that and use it to their advantage. They know the employer can’t counter her with those questions without being demonized as anti-whatever.