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[quote=Anonymous][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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You don't even have to do the "rent a room" thing. Renting a (shared) apartment is a norm for most people into their mid-late 20s at least! And this is doable for someone with a high school diploma who gets a job as say...a cashier at Target or Walmart. They pay $17-18 an hour for people who HAVE a diploma...(and about $14 to those who do not.) Costco pays well too. There are many jobs open to those with a HIGH SCHOOL diploma.

But again, we are talking about getting a HS diploma, then getting a job, THEN starting a family after you've had a couple of years to start earning increases and saving up. It's not easy, but it is possible.

Will you own a 3 bedroom home by the time you're 32? Probably not. 
But you likely will be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in your late 20s and count on being able to provide meals for your family. And that is well above the poverty level.[/quote]

Very nice DP I'll add minimum wage is a minimum wage.  No one is supposed to stay there or live off of it frankly.  If you are making minimum wage after 3 years of working the problem is you.  [/quote]

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