Working for a living, it's the American way, but at what point does the American way become no longer affordable? What most people don't see is the hard work that goes into every single product sold in our stores, especially grocery stores. Agricultural manufacturing is the forty-third busiest industry in the United States with over six hundred twenty-seven thousand employees nationwide (Top 50 Industries). The big picture is that everything found in our grocery stores, everything that keeps this nation out of hunger, comes from agriculture and agricultural production. The real numbers to consider would be the number of immigrants who work long hours seven days a week to keep our agricultural production alive but don't show up in the employment statistics. The problem presented is that the US government does not require agricultural employers to pay their workers a living wage (Avakian, Brad). This leaves workers struggling to live, eat, drink and support their families. The average full-time worker works forty hours a week. If we do the math, that's three hundred and seventy dollars a week. Now, let's exclude the thirty percent that will be taken out for taxes. Now, your weekly income is around two hundred and fifty-nine dollars. Americans, and those who live and work in America, struggle to live on this kind of income. Agricultural workers, whether immigrants or not, cannot live a comfortable life on less than minimum wage income. The sad truth is that the law does not require that all agricultural workers receive a minimum wage. This allows employers to pay their workers a very low wage and in return make a very high profit. While underpayment does not occur in all agricultural work sectors, it certainly occurs in too many and is forcing those who work to suffer the loss of housing, food and child care products..