{"id":109,"date":"2021-04-29T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:27:06","slug":"livable-wage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?page_id=109","title":{"rendered":"Livable Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Families and individuals working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to meet minimum standards given the local cost of living. The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\/\">Living Wage Calculato<\/a>r&#8221; is a website (<a href=\"https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\/\">https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\/<\/a>) that developed an app to estimate the cost of living in your community or region based on typical expenses. The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When workers are paid a livable wage they don&#8217;t need government assistance which can be regarded as a subsidy to companies not paying adequate wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the website and see what a livable wage might be in your area: <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\">https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu<\/a>\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families and individuals working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to meet minimum standards given the local cost of living. The &#8220;Living Wage Calculator&#8221; is a website (https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\/) that developed an app to estimate the cost of living in your community or region based on typical expenses. The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?page_id=109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Livable Wage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}