On the verge of the subsistence minimum

In the US fast-food workers went on strike, with demands to raise their salaries. But the United States - is not the only country where most people do not just live, but it can be said to survive with a salary of a little more than a living wage. Unfortunately, such people are everywhere ...




27-year-old Javier Alava on the street in New York. Alava works in the automotive shop and gets on the verge of a living wage - $ 8 an hour. Working in Long Island, he rides the subway, it takes him about an hour.





Javier Alava works in an automobile shop on Long Island.



Payday.



Check Javier Alava for 50 hours in the store.



58-year-old Dai Yucheng - janitor - lunch at his home in Shanghai. Dai works in the company that manages the municipal government of Shanghai. He earned 2, 28 dollars an hour. He usually works with 4 in the morning before lunch six days a week. Dai and his wife rented a room 3x4 meters in the slums near the place of work.



Dai Yucheng sweeping streets Hongkou district in Shanghai.



Here is the hourly wage Dai Yuchenga - 14 yuan or 2, $ 28.



Suzanne Dimitri waiting for the train at the station, 40 km north-east of Paris. 29-year-old Suzanne works as a teacher, artist's model, and sometimes take part in performances.



Suzanne Dimitri combing her hair in his apartment in Paris.



Suzanne posing artist.



Suzanne on the background of his hourly wage.



60-year-old Jorge at his home on the outskirts of Mexico City. Deaf Jorge works as a bartender for 11 hours a day for over 30 years and earns $ 8 a day. Because of his salary he can not rent a house, so living with the parents of his wife on the outskirts of the city where commutes to work in two hours.



Jorge is going to work in the center of Mexico City.



Jorge is going to work in the center of Mexico City.



Jorge and his daily wage.



Hungarian social worker - 44-year-old Gabriella Bundi and her 11-year-old daughter of river - in the kitchen in Debrecen, 240 km east of Budapest. Gabriella unemployed for three years, she takes a temporary job offered by the state in exchange for unemployment insurance. Her husband - handyman. Together they earn about $ 1,200 a month, but they have five children and grandson - and live with them.



Gabriella Bundi buys vegetables.



Gabriella goes on cleaning the streets with his colleagues.



Gabriella scavenges.



34-year-old Rufina Condori housemaid in La Paz. Condori works two jobs and receives about $ 170 a month.



34-year-old Rufina Condori housemaid in La Paz. Condori works two jobs and receives about $ 170 a month.



Homework - one of its fields of activity.



Rufina and her salary.



24-year-old Nelson Tavares painting a picture for his first exhibition in Lisbon. Tavares works in the publishing company where he gets the cost of living in Portugal - 485 euros per month. He studied at art school, and is now preparing for an exhibition of his own paintings. He lives with his parents.



Nelson Tavares is working on graffiti its namesake Nelson Mandela, which he painted during a holiday in Lisbon.



Nelson Tavares with your friends.



Nelson Tavares with his hourly wage.



Claire Mason looks after children in the children's center. Mason makes the cost of living in Australia, who is officially 15, 96 Australian dollars (14, 26 USD) per hour. Her responsibilities include: feed, play and participate in educational activities of children who are brought to the center of the parents for the day. After paying rent for an apartment, buy food, pay for telephone and gasoline, it is about $ 20 a week.



Claire Mason nappy girl.



Claire during the break.



Claire Mason holds 15, 96 Australian dollars - his salary hour.



24-year-old Dimitrios Zarulas against the backdrop of the Acropolis of Athens. Zarulas studied at the Faculty of Journalism, but works as a waiter at a fish restaurant in the suburb of Athens, where he earns 4 euros per hour. Several times he was able to work as a journalist on the site and in the local newspaper. He lives in an apartment of 90 sq.m. with her parents and 31-year-old sister, who lives with him in the same room. Prior to his work and gets back on the train. After high school he served in the Greek army 9 months.



Dimitrios Zarulas home.



The room, which he shares with his older sister.



Dimitrios 2 2 Euro coins - their hourly wages.



48-year-old Suely PES Alekrin crying, looking at the monthly bill from the bank. Suely lives in Brazil and cares for his 11-year-old daughter, who has cerebral palsy. She lives on a living wage of 288 dollars a month, she paid for a special government program because of the illness of her daughter.



Suely PES Alekrin just bathed his daughter.



Suely playing with her daughter.



Suely PES Alekrin with his monthly allowance.



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