Bob, thanks. That is the one I used in my research. I think their numbers
for a single adult are way too low, but the numbers for families are closer.
Knowing what it costs to live in Ft. Wayne, I think a single adult needs
$20,000 to survive. Add $10,000 for each additional family member (spouse or
child). So I'd need $30,000 to survive. That's about right, I make a little
more than that now, and we live very simply, and I have VERY LITTLE money
left over by the time I pay the bills and feed myself and my son. Him and I
live together with no one else. I have custody of him.
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On 10/18/11 7:48 AM, "LostKase" <lostkase2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris, I found a calculator here...
>
> http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Work for nothing ?
>
> It does stink, but even if the US required interns to be paid, it would
> still stink because they'd be paid minimum wage, which is so low here that
> anyone earning it is condemned to terrible poverty. The minimum wage in the
> USA is a mere $7.25 an hour. That works out to about $200 a week pay after
> taxes are taken out. I live in a city with one of the lowest costs of living
> in the USA, and even here you cannot survive at all on less than $11 an
> hour. That's if you're all alone. If you have children, you need more. Many
> internships are offered in places like New York City and Los Angeles, where
> the cost of housing is 4-5 TIMES what it is in Fort Wayne. Yet, the minimum
> wage in these places, where apartments START at $1000 a month for the
> cheapest places in town, the minimum wage is still $7.25...less than rent
> costs! You still need to eat and pay for your electricity too!
>
> I did a lot of research on costs of living and the concept of living wages
> for a graduate seminar on human rights that I took a couple of years ago.
> Some economists put together a living wage calculator on the web (I need to
> look it up, I can't remember the website now) where you could look at cost
> of living in different American cities and it would tell you what you need
> to earn to barely survive by yourself, and with kids. In Los Angeles, it
> said a single person needed $20 an hour to just barely survive. Few
> Americans anywhere earn that much, which is a solidly middle class income in
> Indiana, and for most young people...my generation and younger, an
> impossible dream. Employers here want people with degrees and experience and
> only want to pay $8 an hour.
>
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