It’s enough to keep an individual housed and fed, but you’d probably have to go on the dole to treat a serious medical issue. I wouldn’t want to have to raise a family on it. I would not consider it a good income by local community standards.
(lower CoL part of the USA)
Why is Chicago so windy?
Because Wisconsin blows and Indiana sucks.
Adapt the geography as appropriate to the audience.
You need therapy bills to economically quantify your emotional damages so that you can sue somebody for them.
Indeed, and would have earned full marks had he said that, or even showed any awareness that his intermediate results were somehow nonstandard.
I had a student tasked with summing a finite geometric sequence with |r|>1, let’s say 1+2+4+8+16. He had apparently forgotten the formula for that, but knew the formula for the infinite series a/(1-r). Good enough he thinks, and sums 1+2+4+… = -1, then subtracts off the excess terms 32+64+128+… = -32, and gets the correct answer of 31.
If you indexed minwage to the local affordable housing costs, there might be more interest in building some.
Sometimes I walk around town late at night. Last week I saw a guy with a sleeping bag napping in the park gazebo. He wasn’t bothering me or anyone, so I just let him be.