Really fed up with these pieces fretting about how *minimum* wage isn't sufficient for *average* rental prices--by definition, there are lots of rentals for less than the average price!https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-much-you-need-for-rent_us_5942cc92e4b0f15cd5b9e2ee …
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Also, looking at wages for a SINGLE worker and comparing to rents for TWO BEDROOM HOMES is just wildly dishonest--if you're struggling like that you'll go for a studio or one bedroom, or split a house with multiple other earning roommates! Come on fellas...
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If articles like this help to spur more equitable pay regimes I'll take them being misleading.
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what if they are so transparently misleading that they prompt people to think there isn't really a problem
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Given the HuffPo's audience I don't share that concern, but then again their audience doesn't need prompted to support that either.
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if they don't need to be galvanized into supporting a measure that they already support (eg higher wages) then what's the harm in giving them honest information about the problem it's supposed to solve
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