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Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) (midwest.social)

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29825277

By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.

If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.

Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

So by this analysis, the state with the lowest cost of living is still at least $39/hr?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yea, to afford a comfortable cost of living, as in 50% expenses, 30% discretionary, and 20% used for savings (emergency and retirement) and to pay down debts

E: Not sure why Im getting downvoted when I did not define these parameters whatsoever. This is just a reasonable calculation they did extrapolating from MIT’s barebones living wage calculations

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