Low wages

On CNN this morning they were interviewing people who have been out of a work but not taking jobs. The consensus opinion was that the pay is not high enough. They pointed out that it is not the unemployment benefits that keep them from working because some states that stopped these benefits still suffered from the same problem, that is, not having enough workers. In the same report they stated that there are 10 million unfilled job openings. This begs the question, if you are not working because the pay is too low what are you currently living on?