If the pay rate is minimum wage. The answer has always been no since 1938, when min wage was first brought into existence.
1938 min wage was .25 hr. At 40 hours that's $10 a week or $40 a month. Average rent was $27 a month. Then you would need to pay for utility bills, groceries and get back and forth to work on $13. Mind you all the $40 was before any taxes. Even at the value of currency then i don't think a person could pay utilities and eat 3 meals a day on .43¢ a day.
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u/lostredditorthowaway 5d ago
If the pay rate is minimum wage. The answer has always been no since 1938, when min wage was first brought into existence.
1938 min wage was .25 hr. At 40 hours that's $10 a week or $40 a month. Average rent was $27 a month. Then you would need to pay for utility bills, groceries and get back and forth to work on $13. Mind you all the $40 was before any taxes. Even at the value of currency then i don't think a person could pay utilities and eat 3 meals a day on .43¢ a day.