Living on Fast Food Wages

The team at Mother Jones used data from the National Employment Law Project, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator (which I posted about last week) to calculate what it would take to earn a living in different metropolitan areas on fast food wages. The example I used below, is again based on the single mom with three children I spoke to. One thing that this calculator allows you to do that the family budget one didn’t is to look at the data from the perspective of a single person.

The calculator is here.

In addition, if you missed John Oliver take on the issue at The Daily Show, you can see that here.

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