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Living Wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers.

In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of living.

Recently, in a number of high-cost communities, community organizers and citizens have successfully argued that the prevailing wage offered by the public sector and key businesses should reflect a wage rate required to meet minimum standards of living.

Therefore we have developed a living wage calculator to estimate the cost of living in your community or region. The calculator lists typical expenses, the living wage and typical wages for the selected location.

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MIT Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning Amy Glasmeier describes the methods of economic geography for exploring living conditions across locations.

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Source - © 2016 Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning Amy Glasmeier describes the methods of economic geography for exploring living conditions across locations.

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