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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]How do people avoid poverty if the minimum wage (which is all you can expect to earn, at least at first, if you have only an HS diploma) will not rent you a two-bedroom in 99 percent of the nation's counties? How do you pay for a trade school if all you're earning is minimum wage? [/quote]

Read the PPs more closely.

You don't need a two-bedroom apartment all to yourself if you are single, and remember, [i]you don't have kids yet![/i].  You won't have kids for -years-.

So as a single 19 or 20 year old with a high school degree, earning minimum wage, [b]you rent a room [/b]in a group house if you're in an expensive city.  Maybe you even share that room that has 2 twin-size beds with another person?

If you're in, say, Dubuque IA, and group homes aren't a thing, you rent a basement from a SFH homeowner on the outskirts of town.  Maybe you rent that basement with a roommate.

Are you in my hometown in Kansas, working in an agribusiness processing plant?  Then you and 5 of your friends at the plant rent the whole damn house, and you follow the rules and don't trash the house and the owner lets you continue to rent for years as you attend night school at the county community college.

All of this is doable.  It's hard as hell to live in deprivation without that second bedroom and balcony, but a healthy, childless, single 19 year old working 40+ hours a week can do it.

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Again, on a minimum wage, you're going to find yourself stuck in that basement in Dubuque for a very long time. Maybe forever. [/quote]

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