Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America

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10. That has been true for a couple of decades, where has CNN been?

Fiscal conservatives have refused to raise the minimum wage year after year because backward thinking economists told them wages were inflationary, while largesse to the richest was not. It's why the stock market is booming while the country is falling apart and people are getting sick and dying younger from poor nutrition.

By all possible metrics, this country is failing its people. Even the ones who think they're doing well are kidding themselves--unable to put their kids through school and unable to save adequately for retirement, often unable to make major purchases without taking on added debt.

It has failed the people doing the essential jobs that keep everyday life functioning the most.