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Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC)
(midwest.social)
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29825277
By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.
If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.
Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage
How are you accounting for cities pulling up the averages for each state? For example New York has some dirt cheap places to live, but it's clearly being dragged up by New York City.
You'd be surprised how few people live in NYC currently as compared to years before. It's becoming a ghost town of the ultra wealthy and dwindling services and space for anyone else
It's still considered to be the most populous city in the US at around 7.9 million.
Doesn't look or feel that way when you walk it rn. So many closed businesses where there used to be busy streets