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> . Were things different in the United States at some point? No, at no point in the history of the US, even when the minimum wage was first created, would the
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> . Were things different in the United States at some point?
No, at no point in the history of the US, even when the minimum wage was first created, would the minimum wage have been enough to afford the median 1BR.
- masonic 8y agoBack in the 1950s, minimum wage and CoL were based on a metric of a single woman living very frugally and sharing a 2-bedroom apartment.