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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on April 01, 2013, 02:24:16 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022578738
OneGrassRoot (18,057 posts)
Three Minimum Wage Jobs Needed To Afford Two-Bedroom Apartment
Rent is too high and wages are too low. We need affordable housing with living wages to bring an end to poverty and homelessness!
Minimum-wage earners need about three full-time jobs to be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment in D.C., Maryland or Virginia, according to a new study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The study looks at how many hours minimum-wage earners, or two minimum-wage earners in one household, must work full-time in order to afford the fair market rent in a given state, while spending no more than 30 percent of income on housing.
* In the District of Columbia, minimum-wage earners need to work 132 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, in order to afford a Fair Market Rent of $1,412.
* In Maryland, minimum wage-earners need to work 135 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, in order to afford a Fair Market rent of $1,273.
* In Virginia, minimum wage-earners need to work 114 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, in order to afford a Fair Market rent of $1,078.
FULL ARTICLE WITH MAP: http://wamu.org/news/13/03/18/three_full_time_minimum_wage_jobs_needed_to_afford_dc_area_rents
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Get a roommate (or get the hell out of DC if you can't afford it). It's not rocket science.
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The market isn't fair, boycott it DUmmies.
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(http://global3.memecdn.com/the-rent-is-too-damn-high_o_275404.jpg)
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All that means is you shouldn't work for minimum wage and expect to make a living. You should have done better in school, primitives.
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It is a supply and demand issue. There is a greater supply if low qualified workers than there are low qualified jobs. Why pay more for an easily obtained commodity. When employment hits below 6% the starting wage glipping burgers will go up. Back in 92-93, south of boston, McDonalds was starting people at over 8 per hour. minimum wage was less than that.
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So? Just do what you have to do. Any one of those PT jobs could turn into something better...even fast food places need supervisors and managers. Plenty of people started out as "McDonald's crew kids" and now have their own piece of the franchise pie (or more than one). Or save your money so you can move to a cheaper area. Get a roommate (or 3) so you can save your money more quickly. You guys never look for a solution. Every obstacle (and we all have them...and they're not all related to money, well yours are...wanting something for nothing is a huge problem) for you is a brick wall you keep running into. The rest of us figure out a way to over or around it.
Cindie
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Welcome to life in leftist hell holes.
You DUmb****s keep voting for more of the same so suck on it.
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Get a roommate (or get the hell out of DC if you can't afford it). It's not rocket science.
It has always been thus. When I was a kid fresh out of H.S., if you wanted a decent place to live and you had a low wage job, you moved in with a friend or two. No one I knew was jumping into a two bedroom, single family dwelling on their own with a single minimum wage or entry-level job. DUmbasses think this is something Republicans invented over the last twenty years or so.
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Part of me can see their side to this, in a way. The truth is, there isn't much in the way of affordable housing, even for people who make more than minimum wage. If you make $40,000 a year, that is roughly $2300 a month after taxes. And also way over minimum wage. In Northern VA, where my sister lives, the apartments start at $1400 a month for a 2 bedroom, and those are by no means top of the line. That is a basic 2 bedroom apartment. Then you would have to add utilities. Elec, water at minimum, at least another $150 a month, higher in seasonal months like winter and spring when you need heat or AC. A basic phone will set you back around another $30 a month, closer to $50 probably if you add internet (and need to work from home from time to time). If you own your car outright and have no car payment, you are still going to need car insurance. About another $80-$100 a month. So after all that, you have about $500 left over for the month. And this isn't counting health insurance costs, car maintenance, gas for your car, etc, let alone food and any kind of fun.
What is needed is affordable housing that ISN'T a haven for Section 8 folks, welfare frauds and drug addicts. Any place affordable is going to suck to live at, based on what I have seen. As soon as you move the leeches in, they suck the life and soul out of the neighborhood.
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So? Just do what you have to do. Any one of those PT jobs could turn into something better...even fast food places need supervisors and managers. Plenty of people started out as "McDonald's crew kids" and now have their own piece of the franchise pie (or more than one). Or save your money so you can move to a cheaper area. Get a roommate (or 3) so you can save your money more quickly. You guys never look for a solution. Every obstacle (and we all have them...and they're not all related to money, well yours are...wanting something for nothing is a huge problem) for you is a brick wall you keep running into. The rest of us figure out a way to over or around it.
Cindie
^^^^^This^^^^
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The answer, of course, is to raise taxes, increase regulations and make the federal government bigger and more oppressive.
It is always the answer, always.
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(http://global3.memecdn.com/the-rent-is-too-damn-high_o_275404.jpg)
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That's EXACTLY what went through my mind when I saw this thread!
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My first job in '51 was at 25¢/hr stuffing catalogs into mailing envelopes. Then in '55 in high school, I moved up to 75¢/hr jerking sodas and flipping hamburgers. Next paying job was the USAF in '58!
But back then minimum wage didn't mean "living wage". It was entry level for learning to get to work on time, and putting in at least decent effort to do what is acceptable to the guy that pays you. You got paid to learn what is expected of you in the real world when you grow up.
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Don't worry DUmmies, Obama is going to take over all the houses and apartments. You will get one room with a bath down at the end of the hall that you share with 10 other families. There will be free water some times and no hot water any time. There will be free electricity.....2 hours a day some days and none most days. Heating will be free in the summer time and reasonable in winter if there is any heat at all......and no such thing as air conditioning in summer because it has been decided that it increases global warming.......and feel free to use the stairs because there is no elevator. You'll just have to carry the mother-in-law up the stairs in her wheelchair.
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Read the whole thread and it's amazing how none of this Obama's fault at all. Someone groused about Florida's governor, but most of the complaining was about DC and Maryland, both of which have been under democrat control for decades. So DUmmies you can:
:ownit: