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Minimum wage at a WalMart is not a survival strategy. If you are lucky enough to get full time (unlikely), one minimum wage job is not going to feed a family a
by dilettante 17y ago
Minimum wage at a WalMart is not a survival strategy. If you are lucky enough to get full time (unlikely), one minimum wage job is not going to feed a family and make a mortgage payment. $1300 a month gross, $975 net, $400 after mortgage, $200 after essential utilities, negative balance after pre existing debt service. Nothing for food, medical, essential transportation to and from job, etc. Sorry, the house must go, file bankruptcy, move to a homeless shelter next door to WalMart and walk to work.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoI agree that you can't live on that, but his tax situation would likely be better than what you're presenting if he owns his own home and makes so little income, especially if he has other dependents. If others in the house work as well, then it's potentially doable. Millions of people manage to scrape by at those levels. Somehow.
- mynameishere 17y agoMinimum wage at a WalMart is not a survival strategy. What a strange thing to say, since for heads-of-households, survival is the only reason one would work an entry level job at WalMart.