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47. what is "most places"?

According to ITEP, in Missouri 40% of households make less than $31,000 a year. Two people making $11.24 an hour would be making $46,758 a year. So you think that 40% of Missouri households are not "living"?

(here's ITEP's pages on the various states http://www.itepnet.org/state_reports/whopaysfactsheets.php)

In Texas as well, 40% of households make less than $31,000 a year. Even in expensive New Jersey, 40% make less than $41,000 a year and in Connecticut, 40% make less than $44,000 a year. In California, 40% make less than $36,000 a year. In Massachusetts, $41,000 a year. In New Hampshire, $40,000 a year. In Illinois, $36,000 a year. In Wisconsin, $35,000. In Ohio, $32,000 a year.

In all of those states, for 40% of households, one, or both, workers in that household are making less than $11.24 an hour, because if they both were making that much, their household income would be $46,758.

Further, many more people are making $12, 13 or $14 an hour and probably also do not think that $11 is THAT bad, like it's minimum wage or something.

And if you are paying $1000 a month in rent, the problem is not that your wages are too low. Rather. the problem is, to coin a phrase, that the rent is too damn high.