Housing is waitlisted up to ten years in some places.
The real minimum wage (corrected for inflation)
Has decreased by more than 30 percent since
1968. In 2004, California’s minimum wage was
32 percent of its average wage. This ratio has
Also declined by nearly 30 percent over the last
35 years and is hovering at historic lows.
(MICHAEL REICH, ARINDRAJIT DUBE and GINA VICKERY
UC Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations)
Home owners and Apartment owners have no oversight about the amount of rent they may ask and no law preventing requirement of the applicant to earn 3 times the asked amount of monthly rent. Earning a living of less than 2,400 per month is ignored reality for too many Americans. Further ignored does the implied conclusion that low wage earners are an unsavory undesirab
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