>> terran lyons.n, three and five. >> she would need about $27 an hour, or about $4,700 a month. >> reporter: triple what she earns, says university of washington professor diana pearce, in order to pay for minimal basic needs in the seattle area without public or private help. >> in washington state, even though our minimum wage goes up with inflation, from $6.50 to 9.32 an hour over the last decade, utilities are going up faster, healthcare's going up faster, but also housing, childcare, food all those are going up faster. >> reporter: way further south than terran lyons, on the outskirts of tacoma, lives another barely over minimum wage worker. joshua vina, with son elijah and wife erika. vina earns $9.50 an hour at seatac airport, working for contractor menzies aviation as a baggage handler at alaska airlines and others. like lyons, he's on public assistance, a $290 monthly housing allowance, $378 in food stamps, government subsidized health care. his employer offers no benefits at all. >> last we