Opinion: At Minimum Wage in California’s Biggest City, Rent Requires 100% of Income ...Middle East

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A home for rent in Southern California. REUTERS/Mike Blake Two decades ago, could we have imagined that a Los Angeles resident working a full-time, minimum wage job would have to pay more than 100 percent of their income to afford an average apartment in the city? Well, that is the place we find ourselves today. The minimum wage in LA is $16.78 an hour, or barely $2,900 before taxes per month. The average apartment in Los Angeles costs $2,719. That is rent slavery. The low-wage employee must combine their income with another or double and triple up to have a decent place to live. Even then, how much will that worker have left for basic necessities such as food, utilities, transp

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