Are day care workers paid adequately?
The students should be asked for their opinions and encouraged to express them orally and in writing. Another issue which is related to minimum wage is whether this is an adequate salary for a person. Get the students to use their mathematical skills to compute a yearly gross salary for a 40 hour week. This works out to $9,880.00 per year. Some may consider this an adequate salary for a single person, depending where they live. Normally, it is considered to be cheaper if a person lives in a rural area, rather than an urban one but students’ views on this might differ. The National Council on Welfare issued figures in 1989 for incomes considered to be at the Poverty Level. These are: $18,900 for a family of four in a rural area (18,000 people) $21,749 for a family of four in a town of 30,000–100,000 people $24,481 for a family of four in a city of 500,000 people Statistics Canada does not define a “Poverty Level”. In their document, Income According to Population Distribution – 1989, t
