Minimum Wage Workers Can't afford Apartment Rent

[ScorpioRising007]

Bernie Sanders is calling it a a "National Disgrace" minimum wage workers can't afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any city in the US. I agree with him it is awful if our economy is doing so good, yet not even those who work very low paying jobs can pay rent anywhere. Nationally the average renter's wage is $17.57 /hour, very hard for someone make $7-8/hr to pay rent anywhere.

Well thankfully Bernie Sanders has I think a brilliant plan to bring affordable housing to the working poor. From what I am reading he is thinking of having a plan to create more affordable housing and also to impose rent control laws.

Hey Bernie your awesome buddy. Feel the Bern!

 

[gipper]

Has a minimum wage worker ever been able to afford to rent an apartment?

 

[Mac-7]

Bernie Sanders is calling it a a "National Disgrace" minimum wage workers can't afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any city in the US. I agree with him it is awful if our economy is doing so good, yet not even those who work very low paying jobs can pay rent anywhere. Nationally the average renter's wage is $17.57 /hour, very hard for someone make $7-8/hr to pay rent anywhere.

Well thankfully Bernie Sanders has I think a brilliant plan to bring affordable housing to the working poor. From what I am reading he is thinking of having a plan to create more affordable housing and also to impose rent control laws.

Hey Bernie your awesome buddy. Feel the Bern!

At his core bernia sanders is a marxist

But in 21st Century America most lefties have rejected outright government ownership of the wealth

Instead they allow private ownership but want absolute government control

 

[sparky]

Minimum wage's original intent needs to be weighed against a near century of change(s)

6 Pros and 6 Cons of Raising the Minimum Wage

~S~

 

[Vastator]

These apartments are having no problem getting rented out. Either by groups of low wage earners. Or those who have better jobs, and can afford it. You socialists are fucking lazy parasites who just want to have everything the higher wage earners have; without putting in the time, and making the sacrifices to get it. Pure entitlement mentality.

 

[sparky]

Min wage was never intended to be a living wage metric.....~S~

 

[TNHarley]

Plenty of jobs for them to choose from. They could get a better paying one.
Or get a second job.
People are so entitled to the fruits of anothers labor.

 

[Obiwan]

Bernie Sanders is calling it a a "National Disgrace" minimum wage workers can't afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any city in the US. I agree with him it is awful if our economy is doing so good, yet not even those who work very low paying jobs can pay rent anywhere. Nationally the average renter's wage is $17.57 /hour, very hard for someone make $7-8/hr to pay rent anywhere.

Well thankfully Bernie Sanders has I think a brilliant plan to bring affordable housing to the working poor. From what I am reading he is thinking of having a plan to create more affordable housing and also to impose rent control laws.

Hey Bernie your awesome buddy. Feel the Bern!

Maybe you should consider learning a useful skill, instead of just screwing up people's burger orders...

 

[K9Buck]

...to impose rent control laws.

Why shouldn't people be able to charge whatever they can get for the use of their own property?

 

[sparky]

Addressing poverty with socialist fixes is like using a necktie tourniquet for a head wound.....~S~

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Bernie Sanders is calling it a a "National Disgrace" minimum wage workers can't afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any city in the US. I agree with him it is awful if our economy is doing so good, yet not even those who work very low paying jobs can pay rent anywhere. Nationally the average renter's wage is $17.57 /hour, very hard for someone make $7-8/hr to pay rent anywhere.

Well thankfully Bernie Sanders has I think a brilliant plan to bring affordable housing to the working poor. From what I am reading he is thinking of having a plan to create more affordable housing and also to impose rent control laws.

Hey Bernie your awesome buddy. Feel the Bern!

At his core bernia sanders is a marxist

But in 21st Century America most lefties have rejected outright government ownership of the wealth

Instead they allow private ownership but want absolute government control

So, fascism?

 

[initforme]

I agree people need to get trained in a field...or learn a good trade. What I do not get is this college is bad attitude. When I see stuff like that it equates to "america needs a workforce for our factories" which I believe other than the management is "no we don't need low wage factory workers" and in today's anerica 20 dollars per hour is low wage. Read again $20 per hour is LOW wage. Lower class. Not even lower middle class. So more than ever if one wants to make it to middle class $20 per hour cannot get you there.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

Bernie Sanders is calling it a a "National Disgrace" minimum wage workers can't afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any city in the US. I agree with him it is awful if our economy is doing so good, yet not even those who work very low paying jobs can pay rent anywhere. Nationally the average renter's wage is $17.57 /hour, very hard for someone make $7-8/hr to pay rent anywhere.

Well thankfully Bernie Sanders has I think a brilliant plan to bring affordable housing to the working poor. From what I am reading he is thinking of having a plan to create more affordable housing and also to impose rent control laws.

Hey Bernie your awesome buddy. Feel the Bern!

Maybe you should consider learning a useful skill, instead of just screwing up people's burger orders...

I actually have a Masters degree and a CDL. For the past year I been working a job in social services for 48k yr, before that I was an OTR truck driver for a few years. But I worked 7-12/ hr jobs for many years even after I got my masters because thats all I could get hired for.

My wife was a high school drop out, IQ of like 80, and has worked fast food all her life because thats her only option, she struggles with her job and coworkers label her as slow. She only made 10k last year with no benefits. Without me she would be back where I found her. Homeless living out of a 20 yr old car, no healthcare, no dental care, no vision care. She gets deathly sick without iron shots her body doesnt absorb vitamin pills and that shot costs $100 month without insurace. So go ahead call her lazy because she is a minimum wage worker, you think its just so easy for minimum wage workers to find better jobs even if they are mentally slow.

 

[Flash]

If you want to be able to afford an apartment then get a job paying more money. Thanks to Trump we have a full employment economy so it shouldn't be too difficult.

If you are an adult depending on a minimum wage job then you have probably made some poor life choices. Pull your head out of your ass.

 

[martybegan]

Has a minimum wage worker ever been able to afford to rent an apartment?

A 2 bedroom apartment at that.

 

[Flash]

I actually have a Masters degree and a CDL. For the past year I been working a job in social services for 48k yr, before that I was an OTR truck driver for a few years. But I worked 7-12/ hr jobs for many years even after I got my masters because thats all I could get hired for.

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My Masters degree earned me a six figure salary for most of my employment career.

You didn't do it right. You obviously made some poor life choices along the way.

Quit your bitching.

By the way, the best way not to be poor, besides simply working hard, is to not vote for Liberals that screw up the economy with failed Leftest economic policies.

 

[martybegan]

I actually have a Masters degree and a CDL. For the past year I been working a job in social services for 48k yr, before that I was an OTR truck driver for a few years. But I worked 7-12/ hr jobs for many years even after I got my masters because thats all I could get hired for.

.

My Masters degree earned me a six figure salary for most of my employment career.

You didn't do it right. You obviously made some poor life choices along the way.

Quit your bitching.

By the way, the best way not to be poor, besides simply working hard, is to not vote for Liberals that screw up the economy with failed Leftest economic policies.

My Masters degree started me out at $40,650 in 1999, and I am at around $135k now.

It all depends on WHAT you masters degree is in.

 

[gipper]

I actually have a Masters degree and a CDL. For the past year I been working a job in social services for 48k yr, before that I was an OTR truck driver for a few years. But I worked 7-12/ hr jobs for many years even after I got my masters because thats all I could get hired for.

.

My Masters degree earned me a six figure salary for most of my employment career.

You didn't do it right. You obviously made some poor life choices along the way.

Quit your bitching.

By the way, the best way not to be poor, besides simply working hard, is to not vote for Liberals that screw up the economy with failed Leftest economic policies.

He wasn’t bitching about his job prospects. He was bitching about his wife’s. She like many Americans didn’t do well in school, so college was not an option. She like many Americans is relegated to low paying jobs, due to low IQ. I think we as a nation need to help these people.

We have a lot of poor Americans really suffering needlessly.

 

[Bush92]

Has a minimum wage worker ever been able to afford to rent an apartment?

Exactly. You’re not supposed to be able to rent an apartment on minimum wage. You’re supposed to make extra cash for college and take your girlfriend out on a date while still in high school working at the hardware store.

 

[Bush92]

They had this type of housing in the former Soviet Union so no wonder Bernie is for it.