Often as not, you may have a single parent with one or more children in the other bedroom.
Even taking the case of roommates for single, childless folks or two parents each working a minimum wage job and taking care of kids, you are seeing 40+ hours per week per person for a basic apartment and no room for much else in the way of expenses. Of course, raising overall salary rates can influence rent prices, so it is a complicated picture no matter what. The best an infographic like this can do is try to present a reasonable set of information with the appropriate caveats and give you a clear(er) sense of the gist of a situation. Judah On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> dang. this says a lot to me. >> >> >> http://www.good.is/post/how-many-minimum-wage-hours-does-it-take-to-afford-a-decent-life/ > > > This is for a two bedroom apartment. I do get that there are full grown > adults working for minimum wage, but to be honest this info-graphic should > be balanced in many cases with a roommate. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
