Labor Day Discussion: how much money do you need right now to get out of debt?

The 15th Annual Job Gap Report by the Alliance for a Just Society shows that a $15 minimum wage is not enough to keep the average worker out of poverty. In honor of Labor Day, guest host Lisa Loving asks: What is your job? How much are you earning? And how much money do you need right now to get out of debt?
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The average single resident of Oregon or Washington actually needs to make almost $16 an hour to stay out of poverty -- almost twice Oregon's minimum wage of $9.10 an hour. 

While the campaign for a $15 minimum wage takes root across the country, a new report underscores just how meager that wage really is for families.

The 2014 Annual Job Gap Report from the economic research group, the Alliance for a Just Society, found that in Washington State the living wage for a single individual is now $15.99 an hour, while in Oregon it takes $15.96 per hour.

A single adult with two children in Oregon needs $30.75 per hour; in Washington, $30.01.