Mother Jones: "America on $195 a Week!"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/01/america-195-week
"Bob Pollin, codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, calculates that a single person needs about $400 a week, pretax, to achieve even a semblance of economic security—the ability to pay bills on time, eat three square meals a day, and set aside a small rainy-day fund. By Pollin's calculation, tens of millions of American workers fall short of that minimum."
Wow! Living in the suburbs of Maryland, near Washington, DC, that would not even cover the rent that my boyfriend and I pay! And I’m not even sure how I’d survive on that amount, much less “set aside a small rainy-day fund.”
