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Working poor, in Somerville and in Appalachia

  Could you make ends meet on $36,000 a year? 53 million American workers earn less than that. That is 44 percent of all American workers. [source] Have you walked in the shoes of someone making $17 an hour? That’s $36,000 a year. This assumes that this is a full-time …

Affordable housing crisis: No end in sight

Let’s talk about affordable housing–and the lack of it. Minimum wage workers cannot rent a two-bedroom apartment, using one-third of their income, …