The hourly rate you need to afford a two-bedroom apartment in every state

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(06-08-2016, 05:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Highly qualified people are not going to work at burger joints with no upward career path.  

You are assuming every job has upward career movement. There are a lot of careers that 40k is about all they could ever truly hope to achieve. Let's be honest a large portion of people never get above slightly above entry level positions.