Comments on: Minimum Wage and the Family Budget

By: Jill SH

Jill SH — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:17:25 +0000

And the link to Up with Chris Hayes goes to the same previous Larry Kudlow piece.

By: Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:13:38 +0000

Fixed.

By: Jill SH

Jill SH — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:16:58 +0000

Your link goes to Cafemom.com. A better link would be to the full report itself: http://nlihc.org/oor/2012.

By: Fred Donaldson

Fred Donaldson — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:01:06 +0000

Growing up, I remember the choice between rent and coal. We had to pick rent, and put up with a little heat from the stove for a few days until we could manage $30 for a ton of coal. A glass of water froze overnight. Do the elite have a clue?

By: cat

cat — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:10:02 +0000

I checked 1983, The HUD data I found only goes back that far.

The rates are very close to the same in the few metro areas I sampled. I imagine you will find variations in this depending on local conditions, but its no college tutition costs level of inflation.

By: Artie Gold

Artie Gold — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:37:20 +0000

Housing. Medical care. Education.
The three expenses whose level is so intertwined with the possibility of class mobility.

I’d be terribly interested in seeing what the equivalent map would look like for the year 1973 for these three aspects of life versus what it looks like today. I suspect it would be rather staggering.