There are 12 counties and only 12 in the entire US where someone could live and have housing with minimum wage work.
The states they are in are Arizona, Oregon, and Washington (state).
If you are old, disabled, poor, and things are bad where you are, you basically have to leave and go someplace else.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/minimum-wage-affordable-housing-rentals-study
In Los Angeles County the minimum wage is rising to $15 for all employers by 2021, but the current wage required for a one-bedroom there is $22.98. In New York City the minimum wage is rising to $15 for all employers by 2019, but the wage needed for a one-bedroom soars above this, at $27.29.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the minimum wage is about $8.50, but housing costs for a one-bedroom would require a wage of $13.77 an hour. In Saint Louis, Missouri, the minimum wage is $10 but $13.27 is needed; in Tacoma, Washington, the minimum wage is $11.15, lagging the one-bed cost of $17.02.
Comments: Why do the call it a minimum wage when it is not one? It does not provide the income necessary for food, housing, minimal things. Why does no one in Washington care about the plight of the poor in America? Even in states where they raised the minimum wage, they did not raise it enough to cover the costs of living in those states, why do they think it is okay for people to continue to live below the poverty level for the areas they live in?
Well they DO have it worse in Hong Kong, but that is little consolation.
I thought Trump was making America great again.
Those are my three favorite states, lived in all of them the last few decades.
I thought Trump was making America great again.
Well he sure does need to Make America Great Again, it is very one of the world powers treats it's own people so poorly. It is not acceptable to have ultra rich and then people starving and/or without housing.
I thought Trump was making America great again.
Well he sure does need to Make America Great Again, it is very one of the world powers treats it's own people so poorly. It is not acceptable to have ultra rich and then people starving and/or without housing.
And yet he wants to give tax cuts to the top 1% and make health care too expensivr for the people you are talking about. Get a clue.
I thought Trump was making America great again.
Well he sure does need to Make America Great Again, it is very one of the world powers treats it's own people so poorly. It is not acceptable to have ultra rich and then people starving and/or without housing.
And yet he wants to give tax cuts to the top 1% and make health care too expensivr for the people you are talking about. Get a clue.
By making the statements she does, she probably would have been better served writing in Bernie than voting for Trump, who stands in contrast to her concern.
Number of hours needed working minimum wage jobs to be able to afford housing across this country.
In NY you only have to work 98 hours a week!
Wages, minimum or otherwise, are not based on how much it costs to live.
That's why there are housing problems in this country. Employers do not care, they want as much profit as possible. American workers are just slaves to The Corporation.
