In No State Can Minimum-Wage Workers Afford a Two-Bedroom Rental

Route Fifty: In only 22 U.S. counties can a full-time, minimum-wage worker afford a one-bedroom rental without spending more than 30 percent of his or her income on rent, according to a new National Low Income Housing Coalition study.

All of those counties are in states with a minimum wage greater than $7.25 an hour, which is “important” but “not the silver-bullet solution for housing affordability,” researchers concluded.

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