re: True or false: it's harder to get a job that covers basic living now

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But the worst seems to be $8.17 per day for food. There is no way you could feed yourself on eight freaking dollars a day unless you just starved yourself a fair amount of the time.

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From 2011-2015 my wife and I absolutely fed ourselves on $8/day. Buy bulk shite on sale and freeze it. Eat lots of beans and rice. Pastas. Tacos and burritos made in your kitchen instead of a restaurant. Cook large meals you can eat the second day and even have a lunch on day 3. And every once in a while, you can buy steaks too, but not every week. We easily subsisted on $8 a day for years, if not less than $8 a day. For an individual, single, you can't eat on $8 a day then you must live in Manhattan or be a fat frick.

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I'd be afraid to walk into whatever you can rent or buy there for only $588 a month.

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You get a $1000 place and a roommate. Or a $1300 place and two roommates. This isn't trigonometry.

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There is no health insurance you can buy for under $200 a month that doesn't have high deductibles and/or co-pays that would easily drive the "typical" expense above the $193.75 shown.

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If you are young, healthy, single with no dependents like a fresh new college grad, you can get high deductible insurance for $15/m. And because you are healthy, you aren't even going to spend anything on healthcare unless you get in a car wreck or get some freak disease, which isn't "typical" and you have medicaid to subsidize your perceived "poverty".