{"id":256,"date":"2012-05-30T23:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-05-30T23:16:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:16:33","slug":"living-on-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/30\/living-on-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Living on Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatingpath.com\/2012\/04\/16\/standard-40-hour-work-week-minimum-wage-pay-bills\/\">How many hours per week does a person have to work in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at minimum wage?<\/a> Following a <a href=\"http:\/\/nlihc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/oor\/2012-OOR.pdf\">report (PDF)<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/nlihc.org\/\">National Low Income Housing Coalition<\/a>, a rather striking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatingpath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hours-At-Minimum-Wage-Needed-To-Afford-Rent.png\">infographic<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/30\/paying-rent-on-minimum-wage\/\">making the rounds (NYT)<\/a> on the web. The bottom line: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/how-many-minimum-wage-hours-does-it-take-to-afford-a-decent-life\/\">nowhere in the USA is it possible to afford a two-bedroom apartment on forty hours per week of minimum wage work.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=fdtbzkn5eJk:I-kxhxAwEB0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=fdtbzkn5eJk:I-kxhxAwEB0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/116475\/Living-on-Minimum-Wage\">http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/116475\/Living-on-Minimum-Wage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many hours per week does a person have to work in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at minimum wage? Following a report (PDF) by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a rather striking infographic has been making the rounds (NYT) on the web. The bottom line: nowhere in the USA is it possible &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/30\/living-on-minimum-wage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living on Minimum Wage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-48","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}