Of course, trashman is a pretty well paid job. Garbage men doing a quick
google make in the range of $15-20 range. That's a good $30,000 dollars, probably with benefits on top of that, which can keep a family in a good quality of life with good morals and good financial sense.
In a functional, non insane economy, you can actually live a fairly decent life at about $10,000 dollars a year per person. A bit better when one pairs up with a functional family/proper community.
Like, eating pretty well at like $10-20 dollars of food a day, is only about $5,000 dollars a year.
One Person's share of basic utilities is like $120 a month, once again not skimping on showers or electricity or wifi, is like $1,500 a year.
Travel, based on owning a car, may be in the realm of $5,000 dollars a year. With a used car, you can get more like $3,000.
So, individually you can live in a fair degree of luxury, eating out more or less every day, traveling to work in a nice car, and not worrying about electricity or water, at about $10,000 dollars. Working full time on minimum wage of $7.25 gets you to $14,500. Thus, you can live very comfortably on minimum wage with a family to lean on for some of the other expenses.
The right generally reconizes that "demand" is generally not the side to attack things from, that poor people need more money, but from the supply side on policy: the important policy is to try and make sure such things as healthcare and housing stay affordable by having a functional healthcare and housing market, and neither of those problems will be solved by just throwing more money at poor people. Throwing money at supply problems generally just results in higher prices, not much more actually supplied.