How Many MINIMUM WAGE Hours Does it Take to Afford an Apartment in Your State?

Kids can have the bedroom while the parent sleeps on a fold out bed in the living room. Before that would happen though the parent would probably have state assistance for at least a two bedroom with food stamps and all medical paid.

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All this does is create more under the table jobs for Illegals to get and in turn vote for the Dems. People are so small pictured. Do you really believe that TPTB give a rats ass where you sleep let alone if you can afford it?

Just wait til next year when 25% of your disposable income starts going for Obamacare, minimum wage or not. You blame the businesses when it is actually the government fucking them and you.

Really, why should they?

But it was supposed to be free, and save us trillions of dollars!!!!

Its only free for those who already don't work and already get free care on someone else's dime. If you work and earn a wag, you will be required to pay something, comes right out of your disposable income.

You forget that you have to make three times the rent amount to even get an apt these days.

New Hampshire

Min wage full time job = $1160/month

My 2 bedroom apartment (admittedly cheaper than some) = $695/Month.

Hours per month at min wage to afford: 95.862

Site lists: 106 hours/wk or $3074 per month.

I have not seen an apartment going for this rate.

So if 2 people work there would $1625 left over after rent per month.

Of course this doesn't factor in taxes. Water is included in the apartment, and though heat and electricity are not included, this situation would likely qualify for some kind of fuel assistance program for winter.

If a kid was involved, there could be up to $200 in food stamps per month as well, more for additional kids.

The only people holed up 10 to a 2 bedroom here are the Nepalese immigrants when they first get here. After 6 months or so it's just to a single family because they all get jobs, cars, and their own apartments.

I mean, I know times are hard for people and the system is rigged to keep the masses down, but gross exaggerations like this site discredit "the cause".

Who the hell works for minimum wage anyways? Even Burger King pays new hires 3 dollars over minimum wage.



If you are working for minimum wage, you're a dumb shit.

Why should they what? give a shit? they dont.
Juan and his twelve cousins living in a single family home are perfectly happy with $5 cash an hour and all the freebies the Government throws in. they got it made and still send money home to Mexico. This is the rule NOT the exception, and you better wake up to it FAST

I already know that. This whole world system is on its last leg. I am really not surprised at anything anymore. These leaders are too greedy and evil to keep things going. There is going to be a change soon because it can't and won't keep going on this way forever.

Um, you forgot the ~40-50% in taxes and other deductions that come right off the top of that little paycheck.

Sadly I dont think that the human race will survive it!
Its like exponential growth as the snowball rolls down hill it just keeps getting bigger until it falls apart under its own weight. the end

She's the boss!

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Brief, you are a total dick, there are youtube vids made about you.

A rightwing braindead sheep who bullshits about his family and past.
sorry, but some one doxed you along time ago.

I don't know a single landlord who wouldn't toss you right out of an apartment, or charge you MORE MONEY, if you bring in more than the number of tenants contracted for in the lease.

Yeah, you are probably right unless, as some people believe, that God saves the day. I am really thinking only supernatural help is going to get us through this. Because it is really apparent that these so called leaders are trying to ruin everything and enslave the masses or kill them off.

That would include less then one percent of wage earners, with no skills. So who cares, learn how to do something worth getting paid for, or move back too moms basement.

This has got to be by design. If we know what raising the minimum wage will do(raise prices and cause more layoffs) then you have to know Obama knows this too. And he only has a short time to do this in. But then he is just a figure head for TPTB. What have they got up their sleeves for us?

I used to earn minimum wage. Most of us did at one point. My first job, summer of 1989, I earned $3.35/hour. The minimum wage jumped up at the end of the summer to $3.85. I am one of those people that escaped being poor. I grew up mostly poor, not totally impoverished, but poor. I put myself through college without help from my parents. I now have a master's and a good paying career level job. I think the minimum wage argument is a red herring. Really, the way out of minimum wage is education. They should be talking about expanding the Pell Grant and forgiving student loans. If you don't ever get an education you are destined to be at the mercy of the minimum wage. I'm not rich but I will end up better than my parents and I hope that my children will be better off than me.

Living with a decent roof over your head and food on the table shouldn't be considered something only of the wealthy...

Minimum wage has not kept up with inflation for the last 40 years. Prices will go up whether minimum wage goes up or not, so there's really no strong argument against it.

In Anchorage, Alaska a decent one bedroom starts at $1100 a month and that is for bare bones.

Alaska is also not a pet friendly state, especially for cats.

Then why do half of U.S. workers earn less than $30 thousand a year? Why are so many workers part-timers with no benefits?

Why work for min. wage unless it's your first job or something after retirement.

Show what your worth. You are only getting back what you put in. Move on and get your shit going and you can make more on your own. Just because they say there is no work.....it can be found and good money can be made.

Oh bullshit. No offense intended, but what may be "troubles" for some might be only a fart in the wind for others. I bet you could find many people with severe troubles willing to trade places with some of you fart in the winders sitting nice and cush and comfortable right now where you are at. Just pointing out the truth.

You are correct, Ill take it back, I dont know brief and even if I know him/her? that is rude to say, so sorry brief.

However, gentlemen and ladies, there is REAL trouble coming on the horizon as in weeks and here we are discussing why someone merits making more than others base on external conditions, when the problems humanity will face for sure will make it more than OBVIOUS that the faith of the planet and all in its is connected like most dont/cant see.

So be safe and be smart :).

What is all this whining about minimum wage?

You are fortunate that someone wants to employ you, particularly in an economy where the President keeps doling out wads of dough to bankers and keeps carpet bombing industry with taxes and all the future generations with whacking great debt bills.

Look, minimum wage is just a slap in the face fo employers and a socialist scam to export all the jobs to their pals in Commie Red China.

If the US is to climb out of recessio, the routwe is obvious:-

- Ban importation of all goods from Red China.
- Scrap the minimum wage.
- Stop all welfare.
- Scrap food stamps.