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Mnemosyne

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58. I hope when it gets much worse, I'm not too broke to leave. It's getting close though, too close.

Reply to lark (Reply #44)

Tue Apr 2, 2013, 09:06 PM

Apr 2013

I'll stay and fight if I have too, but I am not a good fighter at all. Thinking is more my forte.

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Three Minimum Wage Jobs Needed To Afford Two-Bedroom Apartment [View all] OneGrassRoot Mar 2013 OP

What a heartless fucking country. CrispyQ Mar 2013 #1

! City Lights Mar 2013 #38

That's it in a nutshell. Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #61

For us Gen Y/Millenials sakabatou Mar 2013 #2

My daughter, $27,000 student loan debt, makes $10 per hour 34 hrs, running a free clinic. She is Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #3

If she's paying on the income contingent plan, she'll pay for 20 years max demwing Mar 2013 #4

That's comforting in a way. I doubt she will find anything paying more around here. Still, it stinks Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #16

There is one other answer. Occulus Mar 2013 #18

Feel some of your pain lark Mar 2013 #5

I'm almost broke from having to help her and the kids so much. She cannot even move as her sons Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #17

Good luck to us all. lark Mar 2013 #40

It's getting harder to have any hope for the future. nt Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #43

Agree lark Apr 2013 #44

I hope when it gets much worse, I'm not too broke to leave. It's getting close though, too close. Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #58

Definitely not a physical fighter! lark Apr 2013 #62

I sit the youngest grandson, age 3, daycare would cost more than my daughter makes. It's Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #63

Yep, it is definitely a hell of a situation. lark Apr 2013 #67

I keep hoping things will start to turn for the good here, but it's really not looking too good Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #68

+1 woo me with science Apr 2013 #57

... Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #59

My next-door neighbor has three college grad kids... Octafish Mar 2013 #6

This isn't only a problem for the youth... OneGrassRoot Mar 2013 #7

Things are very messed up. Octafish Mar 2013 #9

Some guy tried offering me a job making only $8.50/hr octothorpe Mar 2013 #24

It's laughable Aerows Mar 2013 #26

That's pretty much what he is looking for.. octothorpe Mar 2013 #31

Are there no poorhouses? DCKit Mar 2013 #8

average rent in my part of northern colorado is about $1050 fizzgig Mar 2013 #10

There's more competition for rental units, too, in some parts of the country.... MADem Mar 2013 #11

In this town, the Coast Guard Base drives up rental prices alarimer Mar 2013 #25

They either might not meet basic housing standards.... MADem Mar 2013 #27

My last base was full of empty houses, so they let single people move in, it was great sammytko Apr 2013 #45

Sounds like a "square footage" issue. MADem Apr 2013 #56

"The rent is too damn high"... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #12

when I was a kid - even a poor family on minimum wage could afford to rent a big dumpy old house Douglas Carpenter Mar 2013 #13

$900 for a ROOM. moondust Mar 2013 #14

OMFG - that's an outrage LibertyLover Apr 2013 #54

Yikes. moondust Apr 2013 #55

If there has to be a minimum wage, shouldn't there also be a maximum wage? Blue Owl Mar 2013 #15

What you said! +100,000,000 nt Auntie Bush Mar 2013 #21

Costco (and I hate to keep blowing their horn but...) SomethingFishy Apr 2013 #46

how unusual BUT even $12/hr. is impossible to live on in many cities wordpix Apr 2013 #66

This uponit7771 Apr 2013 #49

YES! wordpix Apr 2013 #65

We live in a country run by sociopathic CEOs. Initech Mar 2013 #19

+1 They started grabbing everything in the 80's SomethingFishy Apr 2013 #48

That's what floors me. Initech Apr 2013 #50

what is the minimum wage in those areas ? JI7 Mar 2013 #20

$8.25 in DC, $7.25 in Maryland and Virginia. octothorpe Mar 2013 #22

Rent in St Pete Florida is decent demwing Mar 2013 #23

TWO hour commute? Is that each way, or total? MADem Mar 2013 #28

2 hour one way demwing Mar 2013 #29

I like to leave the driving to someone else when I can Art_from_Ark Mar 2013 #30

I used to take the bus when I lived in the Portland, OR area... octothorpe Mar 2013 #32

$60 unlimited bus pass demwing Mar 2013 #33

Wouldn't it be nice if the bus had wifi and a crapper? MADem Mar 2013 #34

My commuter bus goes along the Pacific coast to Santa Barbara upaloopa Apr 2013 #53

Shit is fucked up and bullshit. ellisonz Mar 2013 #35

.... OneGrassRoot Mar 2013 #37

K&R woo me with science Mar 2013 #36

minimum wage is a sign of gross inequity . olddots Mar 2013 #39

You're supposed to be either still at home, college ileus Mar 2013 #41

kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #42

Our middle class has been devastated and impoverished. woo me with science Apr 2013 #47

Bush 2005 4Q2u2 Apr 2013 #51

Who are these greedy poor people, acting as if they deserve TWO bedrooms? winter is coming Apr 2013 #52

Meanwhile the rich are getting richer and richer davidn3600 Apr 2013 #60

in DC in a decent neighborhood, make that 10 min. wage jobs wordpix Apr 2013 #64