Supersize my minimum wage

Via Instapundit, Steve Antler has a look at Morgan Spurlock's new film about the trials of trying to live on minimum wage in an unfamiliar city. Spurlock's aim was to push the need for higher minimum wages, but there are too many holes in his film, which Antler discusses.

First and foremost all those minimum wage jobs are scarcer than the producers apparently thought. All the easily-found jobs pay more than minimum wage. Spurlock signs on with a temp agency at $7/hr; his companion Jamieson dickers her wage down to minimum so as to not cheat the show's premise.

Spurlock, it seems, had to try pretty hard to find a job at minimum wage and without some sort of health program.