{"id":13,"date":"2015-09-13T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-09-13T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:39:33","slug":"mapping-the-difference-between-minimum-wage-and-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/2015\/09\/13\/mapping-the-difference-between-minimum-wage-and-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Difference Between Minimum Wage and Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post found in <em>The Atlantic:City Lab\u00a0<\/em>described the lack of a livable wage across the country. \u00a0They created a nice little map tool to identify areas where the disparity between minimum wages and costs of living were the largest.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/work\/2015\/09\/mapping-the-difference-between-minimum-wage-and-cost-of-living\/404644\/?utm_source=SFTwitter<\/p>\n<p>No surprise in that areas across the country like the Northeast and California where high costs of living outweigh the minimum wage disparity is seen to be the largest.<\/p>\n<p>What becomes interesting is that for single individuals Washington state becomes a &#8220;living -wage oasis&#8221;. \u00a0That has to be due to the recent changes in minimum wage laws that state has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless though of the area it becomes clear that a family of two children fails to meet the basic costs of living with a gap in the wage needing to be about $20 per hour higher. \u00a0WOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post found in The Atlantic:City Lab\u00a0described the lack of a livable wage across the country. \u00a0They created a nice little map tool to identify areas where the disparity between minimum wages and costs of living were the largest. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/2015\/09\/13\/mapping-the-difference-between-minimum-wage-and-cost-of-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82266],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/the-science-of-being-rationally-irrational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}