How To Planning An Imaginary Life In The Movie Two American Families?

For this project groups had to come up with a budget that would fit for a family living just above poverty in Cedar Rapids, IA. Groups had different ideas on how to make the family live on a specific budget and how to purchase food and necessities that would be important for the family in their everyday lives. When planning an imaginary life for a family of four, each group has to look different categories, food, housing, education, and transportation. These four categories are important to all families know matter where you go in the United States. Each group went off and made their own family different. Some on the similarities that the groups had were that they shopped at the same store, Walmart, and had a similar annual income earning.

Group one did a really good job with their budget and how they spent everything. Looking at how they made their family live daily was good. However, it did not seem that their prices for food was very accurate. When a family is looking for food for their family they will try to spend a good amount to make sure they have food to cover their family for as long as it can. In the movie Two American Families, there were two families that were living in poverty and they could not find a way to fully survive. One of the families the Neumanns were living the American Dream then a few years later they were living in poverty. This happened because the father lost his job and could not find work to help make his family get out of jjjjj the whole they were in. The Neumanns were living in poverty and had to find ways to make their children succeed in life (Two

Also trying to make their families have a small amount of money to live by and creating a monthly food menu for them, finding rent and child care is not easy to do when you have a limited amount of money for each thing. By looking at the outcomes of each group, one can see that each group had a total income of $30,000 or more. This amount is more than the poverty level. When you look at the budgets the groups gave their families and compare that to the Neumanns, one can truly see that the every groups budget would give families extra money to spend on food or necessities that would be needed but not needed at that moment in time. The Neumanns did not have a life like that, they basically lives paycheck to paycheck (Two American). With the budgets the groups gave to their family of four, it was a budget for a family whose main contributors did not work minimum wage jobs. The families would be working in higher paying jobs that would give the family some wiggle room to live. In the article Nickel-and-Dimed, On (not) getting by in America, one can see that living on minimum wage is not an easy living situation. Barbara, the author, went into the workforce to see how living on minimum would affect someone 's life. She went undercover for a month, the discoveries she