City&#39;s minimum wage earners can&#39;t afford to pay their rent
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It is not just tough to find a place to live when you&#39;re earning minimum wage. It&#39;s practically impossible. According to an annual survey by a
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Congress won't give you one--the federal minimum wage is still $5.15. Although 22 states require employers to pay more (and six more may do so in November), activists in Chicago and elsewhere are pressing for a "living wage" to help the working poor.
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Comedians in New York are threatening to strike if the city's comedy clubs do not give them a pay rise.
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With his city teetering above a financial abyss, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went before television viewers this month and delivered some grave news: He had no choice but to lay off nearly 700 city workers and cut services. This was no time for wanton spending, he said.
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As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
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Here's a city with a parking crisis, crippling traffic jams, and unaffordable rents.
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Boston isn't the cheapest place to do business. Living and housing costs are steep. And you can't play golf year round.
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About one-third of the nation's cities have less affordable housing than they had a year ago, according to a survey released Thursday.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Dec. 18--Newly released numbers show that Charleston's working wages fall  below what's needed to pay the rent.
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As the writers' strike cuts deep, thousands of people who rely on LA's entertainment industry face financial ruin. And the city which has already lost $1.4bn may now lose the Oscars
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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Rising property prices are making the gap between rich and poor far worse, housing charity Shelter say.
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Guardian reveals wage discrimination claims leave black hole in local authority finances
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The nation's lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour on Tuesday, the first increase in a decade.
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If you make minimum wage and want a two bedroom apartment in Gwinnett, youâll need to work 172 hours a week to pay the rent and utilities, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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After nearly four years of slashed security deposits, allowances for pets and other perks, Bay Area renters are starting to see prices rise and their bargaining power decline.