Minimum Wages and Living Wages in US / A map
Posted: 07/01/2014 | Author: The Political Idealist | Filed under: Uncategorized |4 Comments »
Reblogged from Job Market Monitor:
The map and chart below show how close each state's new minimum wage comes to reaching a living wage, meaning one in which a worker can cover food, housing, utilities and other basic expenses. In some cases it\'s not very far at all: Many of the states that raised their wage floors Wednesday still have minimum wages that cover only 70 to 90 percent of the living wage.
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