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The fact that you think that your student budget is applicable to single parents is laughable. $600 is really low for rent in a lot of places.

And before you say that someone making so little should move to a rural area where their minimum wage will amount to a higher standard of living, let me point out that NYC has McDonald's too.

7.25/hr is not a living wage. http://www.fastfoodforward.org/en/

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I fail to see where in the original article it mentioned any costs relative to parenting. So turning this to talk about the costs of single parenting seems a non sequitur.

also, when you say 7.25/hr is not a living wage, I think you have to take into account the location. In NYC you are right. However in many parts of the world this would be considered a very good wage. Cities generally deal with this by raising the minimum wage within the city, something I think is a very good policy.

Btw, in my original example I wasn't living in a rural area.

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