Posted on September 16, 2015 by Cole Stangler in International Business Times International Business Times, By Cole Stangler There’s a dirty secret about the minimum wage: If you’re trying to support a family on it, working full-time, you’re still going to fall below the poverty line. It’s something that millions of people in the U.S., such as Elena Campo, are finding out the hard way. “The street isn’t easy,” says Campo, 55. Six hours a day, five days a week, she stands a few blocks from Broadway and Wall Street in the New York borough of Manhattan, wearing a billboard that advertises deals at a nearby Subway fast-food outlet. She hands out flyers to passersby, a mix of tourists, bankers and other white-collar professionals. “It’s tiring, it’s a lot of people coming and going,” she says in Spanish.
