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More4, 27 October at 9 pm
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R emember Morgan Spurlock, the US documentary maker who in the award winning film Super Size Me ate only McDonald's fast food for a month (see BMJ 2004;328: 1266)? Now Spurlock has swapped McDonalds for Mcjobs, in a bid to find out what it is like to live for 30 days on the US minimum wage-$5.15 (£2.90; [euro]4.30) an hour. "Millions of Americans do full time jobs and still live below the poverty line," he says. Can he and his fiancée, Alex, a vegan chef, hack it?
To make things realistic, the pair freeze their bank accounts and lock up their credit cards, taking only $356 dollars in total as their starting balance before heading off to Columbus, Ohio,...