FDR's 2nd

According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, necessitous men are not free men.  He pointed out what to progressives has always been apparent - people who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Roosevelt argued further that freedom for individuals cannot be sustained without economic security and independence.  It was upon this premise that FDR, in his State of the Union address of 1944, introduced the idea of a second Bill of Rights, under which, he maintained, a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all — regardless of station, race, or creed.

Fast forward to today.  Minimum wage, in many parts of the United States, would offer neither security nor prosperity.  What's more, there's a WTF:  not every state provides for a minimum wage.  So, the first two items in Roosevelt's new Bill:

• the right to a useful and remunerative job
• the right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation

would be difficult to achieve in, say, Mississippi.  And even at the minimum wage of $7.25 set by the Federal government and adhered to by about 60% of the country, a household of two would be below the poverty level.