1. many workers throughout the world make such low wages that they have a difficult time simply surviving. how can people laboring for starvation wages address the economic problems they face?

There are numerous ways. They mostly need to attract the attention of the media in order to show how the government policies need to be changed. People empathize with those in trouble so if they start striking and attract the attention of the media they can get the people to join them and support them and the government would change the legislature.

There once was a city named Mason
Where people ate out of a basin
But when they were dirty
Everyone was in a hurry
For the town was in total frustration