A higher minimum wage is the answer to poverty

Apologize for not answering before. For many people living in minimum wage is it not about maintaining a standard of living, it is about getting a standard living. It is easy to say that a person having a fine life getting a pay raise, possibly will not go out spending it extravagantly. That does, however, not account for every minimum wager in the states. If a person, who barely has enough money to provide for him/herself, finally get enough money to buy proper food, get a decent apartment or other necessary things, do you not think that, that person would go out spending that extra money, to achieve the life every human deserves? Take for example a person working minimum wage, in the state of Texas. Texas" current minimum wage is 7.25 $ per hour. It is been assumed that an average minimum wage worker, work around 35-40 hours per week. The average of that would be around 37,5 h/w. A minimum wager in Texas would therefore, get approximately 271,88$ a week, and 1165.2$ a month. Out of those money he/she would have to pay taxes, which is around 15% for a single person with that income. 15% out of 1165.2 is 174.78, which means that the money received would be 990.42$. He/she would need a place to live, let us say he/she got a cheap small apartment to 356$ a month. After that he/she would have 634.42$ left, and there are still a few expenses that have yet to be covered. The average monthly residential electricity bill in Texas is 128$, but assuming that this person would get a cheaper deal somehow, let us just calculate with 100$. Now there is 534,42$ left. Then he/she will need some kind of transportation, assuming that a minimum wage worker will not invest in a car, he/she will then be forced to take public transportation. Usually, a normal working adult would use some transportation 5 days a week, and since the person in this case is poor, taking the bus would be the best option. A monthly bus pass (lasting 31 days) in Texas costs 40$, so now there is 494.42$ left. Then there are the small expenses like phone-bill, restorations, clothes and other basic needs to have a decent living. All in all, that would be around 200$, and calculated with that, there is now 294.42$ left. That means that he/she now only has 9.81$ left for food everyday. That is not enough for decent food everyday, and that is not even calculated with smaller expenses like birthday-gift, visits or fun. Things that everyone should have the right to enjoy. Do you not think that if a person like that, got a small pay raise, he/she would go out instantly, and use some money, to make his/hers living standard decent for a human being? There is also a lot of "luxury" things, people in the middle class take for granted, that a person in minimum wage would desire enough to go buy it. Therefore, there will be put new money out in the economy. The thing about, if the companies got more money, they would just take the profit themselves, and therefore not create more jobs, is a complete misinterpretation. The secret behind getting filthy rich, is not saving money, but using money to make yourself wealthier. People who owns big companies, usually live by that rule, therefore when people suddenly begin to buy more, they would not just keep the profit. They would expand their company, therefore hire more people, so that they eventually would be able to earn more money.