The country is supposed to be about freedom, with that comes the responsibility to care for yourself.
No one is guaranteed a “living wage”, nor should they be. Who is to determine what that wage is, some bureaucrat somewhere?
Someone offers to employ you for a wage, you agree or don’t. Up to you (and them). Start a business if you like, or can. If you don’t have money but have ideas, use a venture capitalist.
But what about upward mobility! Is that in the constitution? You are guaranteed a good chance to be in the richest whatever %? And how would that be achieved?
Working poor aren’t guaranteed medical care, or at least shouldn’t be. Hospitals shouldn’t even be required to care for them under any circumstances if they can’t pay. If your car breaks down can you get free service at the garage if you’re “poor”? It’s nuts.
The gov’t owes people nothing except defense, public safety and a clean environment.
I don’t care if the “working poor” are sleeping on the streets or dying of the plague, I don’t want my money used for them.