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Old Dec 29, 2019, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by hvert View Post
A lot of these crappy jobs would be okay jobs if they paid livable wages. Someone working a 40 hour minimum wage job could not afford the average rent here.
yes. I worked with people (eg LNAs/CNAs/Kitchen/Housekeeping) some of whom worked full time and then some and still qualified for section 8 housing and/SNAP---and people looking at them as if they do not matter...
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