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Re: Minimum wage cover the rent in 22 counties in the U.S. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jun 15 10:12:04 2018, in response to Re: Minimum wage cover the rent in 22 counties in the U.S., posted by AlM on Fri Jun 15 08:25:20 2018. I looked at the report website, and the only way to look that up is to open the state data for each of those 5 states and manually lookup the county data for each county. This is not hard in the case of Arizona, but is hard for California with its many counties.The entire report is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that a two bedroom apartment is the basic unit of housing for a minimum wage worker not supporting any dependents. This is grossly luxurious. If a minimum wage worker must live alone, they can live in a studio, efficiency, or SRO. Or even share such a unit with someone else. Students going to college are somehow expected to share rooms with incompatible strangers they've never met and yet losers earning minimum wage should get two whole bedrooms to themselves? |
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