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30 Days :: Minimum Wage (01x01)

Episode Information

Title:

Minimum Wage

Episode #:

01x01

Original Airdate:

Wednesday June 15th, 2005

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NL (RTL 5)	May 03, 2009

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For the first episode host Morgan Spurlock and his fiancée Alex will find out what it is like to live on minimum wage in a country based on wealth. They will uproot themselves from the financial security of their New York City home and move to a struggling Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood for 30 Days. They will have to work at multiple minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet. The couple will experience everything from searching for a place to stay with no income, to what it's like scrapping to afford the basic daily essentials. They will learn the struggle of having to decide on whether to spend money on food or medicine when Alex gets sick (not to mention the money they will lose when she takes time off of work). Their effort to make ends meet is stretched to the limit when Morgan’s nieces come to live with him so he can understand first hand what it’s like to feed and support a whole family living on a measly $5.15 an hour.

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