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10. Yep. You're not living there on $12-$14 an hour. It's a drop from $2,850 to $2,798 or $52 a month.

Fri Mar 15, 2019, 03:38 PM

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The drop alone amounts to about 5 hours of work at $14 per hour, with taxes taken out.

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