re: In Louisiana, you need twice the minimum wage to afford a 2-bedroom apartment

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Wrong. Less than 3% of adults make minimum wage

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First, admit you moved the goal posts twice.

The first time when you excluded the workers between 18 and 25. The OP's post that I was replying to stopped at HS graduation.

Second, I said at or close to not simply minimum wage. I was thinking anything under around $10. Though I didn't mention a figure I was clear not to limit it to exactly minimum wage.

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After analyzing public-use microdata for 2013 from the Current Population Survey (the same monthly survey that underpins the BLS’s wage and employment reports), we estimate that last year about 20.6 million people — 30% of all hourly, non-self-employed workers 18 and older — are in that “near-minimum-wage” category. That includes 8.8 million people in states with minimums above $7.25, and 11.8 million in states where the federal rate applies.

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