Elected officials try to live on minimum wage
Not so easy on $14 a day
Twenty-eight prominent New Yorkers, including elected officials in Brooklyn, are trying to make it in the big city on a minimum wage budget.
State Sen. Daniel Squadron, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and Council Members Letitia James, Jessica Lappin, Donovan Richards, Steve Levin, Ydanis Rodriguez and Jumaane Williams are among those who have joined what’s being called the “minimum wage challenge.”
The representatives are living on the budgets of low-wage workers this week to experience how the average low-wage Joe lives in New York.