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soc7

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8. Can you stop and think about it for just a second...
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 03:18 PM
Mar 2012

The chart says that someone earning $7.25 an hour will have to work in excess of 70 hours a week to get a 2 bedroom apartment in Indiana. That's going to be AT LEAST $2170 a month.... for a 2 bedroom apartment.... IN INDIANA!

I've lived in Indiana for better than 20 years. I know people in extremely nice, 4 bedroom, 3 bath houses with a pool that don't pay nearly that much!

Come on!!! Are you telling me that it costs $2200 a month for a 2 bedroom in Hamilton County (or anywhere else in Indiana for that matter). I call bullshit!

Look - I agree... the minimum wage is too low - especially for most of the country. But, don't go beating your chest over a bunch of bullshit statistics that are blatantly bogus! Take just a casual look through any paper or housing web site in the state and you won't find anything close to this!

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