Sunday, April 02, 2006

Speaking of the minimum wage...

In the context of an article in the New York Times on the "mobile homeless" (people forced to live in their cars), the writer highlights the following factoid:
Last year was the first year on record, according to an annual study conducted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, that a full-time worker at minimum wage could not afford a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country at average market rates.
Not anywhere. Wow.

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