There are many reasons why people are involuntarily forced into minimum wage jobs. It may be because the person is divorced, and trying to flee from an abusive spouse, or because the person's family passed away, and he or she is left to live alone. Teenagers move away from home to go off to college, and have to make ends meet on their own, with no degree, and no experience to help qualify for a high paying job. Also, many women have children they support on their own, and do not have an education, or do not speak English well enough to get a good job. For whatever reason it may be "approximately 1.5 million working Californians, over ten percent of the workforce, earn at or near the minimum wage, between $6.75 and $7.25 per hour, (Budget Brief 1)." In California the standard minimum wage...