Money left?
For that vacation? lol...
Try raising a family on 23k per year, regardless of where ya live.
After heating oil, rent, gasoline, insurance, food prices, utilities and everything else,...at $11 an hour or so, you'll be -300 per month.
Even mid-aged, middle class private sector folk are having issues just filling their stinking gas tanks.
Young people in today's America are screwed, hence all these articles depicting young adults living at home with the folks, or on the verge of doing so.
I was commenting on single youths that are just getting started. If they earn 23K a year in our town, they should be able to get by if their parents kick them out. It is like being an E1 in the military. One wouldn't be able to raise a family on 23K. At that point, food stamps and medicaid would likely kick in..