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https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles/61-new-living-wage-data-for-now-available-on-the-tool#:~:text=The%20living%20wage%20in%20the,wage%20for%20most%20American%20families.
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vette08
Thats like 80+hr work weeks at $16.5/hr to hit 68k/yr
Chereazi
Only nearly 4 full time jobs? Just send the kids into the coal mines like the good old days! You'll even have money left over!
twerknado
Make Child Labour Great Again
not4chars
And here I was a single parent, single income, making 12.75 an hour. We somehow survived, and my ex never paid child support.
itsmy1stsmokebreak
Well congrats on that then! And that sucks about the child support situation.
myballshurt
That math doesnt add up. 68k is not 16/hr
charondaboatman
2 working adults in a family of four. 16x2x40x52.
myballshurt
My bad, didnt read the two working adults.
DrDarkwing
How many hours are you working? Normal work year is just over 2000hrs
itsmy1stsmokebreak
I work essentially the nat. average. Also paid above minimum wage. Still don't make enough to live by myself by default in my city.
DrDarkwing
Ditto. I was more getting at 16.54*2080=/68k. More like 33k.
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
And that living wage is for...? There is a GIANT difference in cost of living in, say, NYC or SF vs more rural areas.
itsmy1stsmokebreak
It's an analysis of the national average with "geographically specific expenditure data for food, childcare, health care, housing, 1/
itsmy1stsmokebreak
transportation, and other basic necessities." More here: https://livingwage.mit.edu/ 2/2
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
So if we're arguing that the minimum wage should be based on the COL, the federal minimum should be based on the absolutely(1)
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
cheapest place to live in the entire country.
itsmy1stsmokebreak
It could be flexibly based on states/regions vs. a flat federal minimum wage that doesn't support the needs of many areas.