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w0nderer

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Mon May 30, 2016, 02:19 AM May 2016

X post of Eridani's:Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country

Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country - Democratic Underground
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Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/05/27/minimum-wage-workers-cant-afford-rent-anywhere-country/

People who make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour can’t find an affordable place to live anywhere in the country, according to a new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

But perhaps even more surprising is that even if the minimum wage were raised to $15 an hour — the level low-wage workers have been demanding in a constant flow of strikes and protests and the highest level supported by Democratic lawmakers — they would still be out of luck.
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X post of Eridani's:Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country (Original Post) w0nderer May 2016 OP
K & R n/t TubbersUK May 2016 #1
K&R ReRe May 2016 #2
What do we want? Incremental change! Doctor_J May 2016 #3
K & R lmbradford May 2016 #4

ReRe

(10,780 posts)
2. K&R
Mon May 30, 2016, 05:27 AM
May 2016

Wake up America. This is a national shame. I guess Chris Matthews of MSNBC would call it a part of our "American Exceptionalism?" There is nothing exceptional about this. Exceptionally shameful is what I call it.

Americans need to get their heads screwed back on after Ronald Reagan's "Me-Me-Me" Greed is good brainwashing. I am reminded of a song I sang in HS Choir many years ago. It was from the 1962 movie "No Man Is An Island."

"No man is an island,
No man stands alone,
Each man's joy is joy to me,
Each man's grief is my own.

We need one another,
So I will defend,
Each man is my brother,
Each man is my friend."

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