Posted on 06/22/2024 10:05:09 AM PDT by zeestephen
The money covers a single person's basic expenses like housing in a studio apartment, food, health care, and transportation...San Francisco: $35.98 - New York: $33.58 - Seattle: $31.93 - Washington, DC: $28.89 - Los Angeles: $26.81 - Detroit: $19.70
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The “good news” is that many of these minimum wage jobs are being filled by our “new Americans”...the ones who crossed the border yesterday. They have no desire to live alone, in fact they are more likely to live 5 families to what used to be a “single family” dwelling, pooling their money and driving up rents for any actual “single family” trying to rent. Just another blow to the American middle class.
Read later.
“No expectation that a minimum wage worker could expect to live solo”
Especially here in NC where min wage = $7.25 lol
My first job back in the 70’s paid $3.25 min wage
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