Living on $10 or Less

Ben Casselman usefully tries to figure out just how many people are trying to survive and support themselves on less than President Obama’s proposed $10.10 minimum wage. While solid numbers are hard to nail down, it’s certainly not a bunch of teenagers working part time jobs here. Especially when you get to the $9 and $10 range, there are a lot of people trying to support themselves or even families, which is insane.

So this is useful stuff. However, I will say that if the foxes at 538 provide this much methodology in every post, it’s going to get more tiresome than those cultural anthropology methodology chapters about the author’s positionality as an observer in the community really really fast.