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Re:Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a ... by chimeracoder on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:02AM (#19178806)
> . Were things different in the United States at some point?

No, at no point in the history of the US, even when the minimum wage was first created, would the minimum wage have been enough to afford the median 1BR.

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Re:Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a ... by masonic on Sunday February 17, 2019 @07:50AM (#19184216)
Back in the 1950s, minimum wage and CoL were based on a metric of a single woman living very frugally and sharing a 2-bedroom apartment.
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