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- Living Wage Calculator https://livingwage.mit.edu/ 84 comments
- Living Wage Calculator http://livingwage.mit.edu/ 51 comments
- Living Wage Calculator http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/ 34 comments
- The woman behind Ikea's living wage calculator http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/woman-behind-living-wage-calculator 51 comments
- Living Wage Calculator http://livingwage.mit.edu/ 4 comments economy
- Living Wage Calculator http://livingwage.mit.edu/?print=yes 3 comments politics
- Living Wage Calculator from MIT http://livingwage.mit.edu 21 comments financialindependence
- MIT's living wage calculator is actually pretty accurate https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/5xwkx1/mits_living_wage_calculator_is_actually_pretty/ 872 comments personalfinance
- MIT's living wage calculator (x-post from /r/personalfinance) https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/5y1ieg/mits_living_wage_calculator_xpost_from/ 23 comments financialindependence
- What constitutes a living wage?: A guide to using EPI’s Family Budget Calculator https://www.epi.org/publication/epis-family-budget-calculator/ 30 comments dataisbeautiful
- Family Budget Calculator: Contrary to what the GOP says, try living on Minimum Wage http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ 49 comments politics
- Living Wage Calculator: See what you should be making, depending on where you live in order to survive (US only). http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/ 31 comments reddit.com
- How The 99% Live In The Great Recession -- The Financial Times calculated that “if wages were at their postwar average share of 63 percent, U.S. workers would earn an extra $740bn this year [2012] or about $5,000 per worker.” http://www.nationalmemo.com/weekend-reader-down-the-up-escalator-how-the-99-live-in-the-great-recession/#.uvgnxgbwl6o.reddit 281 comments politics
- Researcher develops Living Wage Calculator (LWC) - This online spreadsheet lets anyone calculate a wage required to make ends meet, adjusted for every community in the U.S. http://phys.org/news/2015-08-wage.html 182 comments technology
- Researcher develops Living Wage Calculator (LWC) - This online spreadsheet lets anyone calculate a wage required to make ends meet, adjusted for every community in the U.S. http://phys.org/news/2015-08-wage.html 55 comments politics
- Half of the working adults in the USA make 30k or less, 40% of that number are closer to 20k, and 70% are under 50k. If one takes the time to look at a population density map, and a cost of living calculator, it's easy to see that these wages don't buy a reasonable quality of life in these places. https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2016 186 comments economy