Report: No minimum wage worker in U.S. can afford a 2-bedroom rental
By Dakin Andone and Jessica Campisi, CNN
There’s not a single state, county or metropolitan area in the entire United States where a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
And if those workers wanted to? They’d have to work 122 hours a week. Every week. All year.
This is according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, or NLIHC, which found U.S. workers need to earn $22.10 an hour to afford a “modest” two-bedroom rental. That’s about three times the federal minimum wage.