My name is Chris Halterman. I am a Junior at Idea Center High School. I am writing to you regarding the minimum wage and how I think we can help people who are struggling with living on the minimum wage. I want to see if you can change or support minimum wage by making it go up. One reason is there are many families that are struggling to live off of the minimum wage. My second reason is because it has gotten so expensive to do anything that nobody can live by themselves at this point. If this change were made, it would allow a lot of teens and other people to live by themselves and allow people to afford more stuff. I want you to raise the minimum wage. I think that this would benefit us because, like I said, people could