Nowhere in America can someone working full-time at a minimum wage job afford a 2 BR apartment. If we had given everyone $2k/mo during the worst of the pandemic, the eviction crisis might not be the humanitarian disaster it is now. “Go get a job” is cruel advice.

Jul 31, 2021 · 4:14 AM UTC

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But Billionaires made $1.2 TRILLION during the pandemic. We need a paradigm shift in thinking.
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I agree ... $2k/mo would have allowed many people the ability to pay their rent so evictions would not be occurring.
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Dems are going to be wiped out in 2022. They walked out on the eviction moratorium. Instead of Hooverviles you'll have Bidenvilles this Fall
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In America its jobs as in plural. We don't live, we barely survive. We break our backs for pennies.
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Every single soul in congress should be tried for crimes against humanity for allowing the eviction moratorium to come to an end. Absolutely despicable.
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In 2021, in the richest nation on Earth, the level of inequality/the wealth gap, is worse than that of ancient Egypt.
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And Congress left town ,this is not a good look ,in a crisis!
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A minimum wage should not single handedly afford a 2BR. A studio or 1BR sure. Wtf is this?
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If they raised the minimum wage to 15$ph it would have created more jobs because people wouldn't have to work 2+ jobs just to survive.
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Some of the first reactions to ABC's article on congress's failure to extend the moratorium
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