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Study: It's impossible to live on less than $14/hour
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October 16, 2015
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"The Alliance for a Just Society, an economic justice advocacy group, released a report on Tuesday that found there are two states where workers would have to work more than 100 hours a week to be able to afford food, housing, child care and meager savings. In Hawaii, where the minimum wage is a measly $7.75 an hour, a person would have to work for 110.7 hours a week to survive. In Virginia, which has the pathetic $7.25 federal minimum age, workers have to spend 103.2 hours a week at their job. It’s not much better in five other states — Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — employees have to work more than ninety hours a week to make ends meet.
“Everywhere across the country needs an increase in the minimum wage,” said Allyson Fredericksen, a policy analyst at Alliance for a Just Society and the author of the report. “There’s nowhere that the minimum wage allows you to really make ends meet.”
The researchers found that there is no state in the U.S. where a single person can comfortably live for less than $14 an hour. For a family of four, that shoots up to $17.85 for both parents. As a matter of fact, in thirty-five states, the minimum wage must be raised to $15 an hour in order for it to be the livable wage it was meant to be."
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