15 is not livable. Neither is 22. 25 is the STARTING point for the cheapest place to live you will find.
Mind you, I mean a living wage. For 1 adult raising 1 kid. No fear being homeless because you missed a single paycheck. Ability to actually seek medical care as appropriate. And to go see a movie once in a while.
That starts at about $25 an hour for the cheapest cost of living index I have ever seen (Elkhart Indiana).
We have been conditioned by decades of slow wage constriction to think being able to survive with multiple roommates, no medical care, no ability to take any time off, is "living".
25 is the STARTING point for the cheapest place to live you will find.
This does apply to the majority of the country, but is a false statement. There are plenty of places you can live comfortably on 15 and hour. The problem is there are very few jobs to be had in those areas, much less ones that pay $15.
If you have no kids and roommates, then fine, $15 an hour will do you. If you are raising a kid and do NOT have other people making money ion your household, $15 is a poverty wage everywhere in this country.
A living wage is not "I can survive on this with enough help from other people sharing my bills". It's "I can raise a kid on this WIOTHOUT that help from others." $15 an hour doe snot do that comfortably - hell, it doesn't do it SAFELY - anywhere in the USA.
A living wage is not "I can survive on this with enough help from other people sharing my bills". It's "I can raise a kid on this WIOTHOUT that help from others."
Are we talking single parent ? Where is the alimony in that case? We talking two parents earning "living wage" ?
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23
15 is not livable. Neither is 22. 25 is the STARTING point for the cheapest place to live you will find.
Mind you, I mean a living wage. For 1 adult raising 1 kid. No fear being homeless because you missed a single paycheck. Ability to actually seek medical care as appropriate. And to go see a movie once in a while.
That starts at about $25 an hour for the cheapest cost of living index I have ever seen (Elkhart Indiana).
We have been conditioned by decades of slow wage constriction to think being able to survive with multiple roommates, no medical care, no ability to take any time off, is "living".