Paying the rent isn’t as hard in South Dakota as it is in most other states. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, South Dakota has the fifth-lowest “housing wage”, the hourly wage one has to make to keep rent down to 30% of one’s income.
You have to work full-time at $17.49 an hour or 65 hours a week at the current minimum of $10.80 an hour to afford modest two-bedroom housing. Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico are the only places in the U.S. where you can cover a month’s rent in a basic apartment on a lower hourly wage. Minnesota ranks 26th versus our 48th, with a two-bedroom housing wage of $24.11 an hour. Minnesota’s median hourly wage is 23% higher than South Dakota’s, but Minnesota’s average fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment is 38% higher than South Dakota’s.
Wages and rent vary from county to county. According to NLIHC’s data, 55% of South Dakota’s households are in counties, including Minnehaha and Pennington, where the housing wage is actually higher than the state average. In Minnehaha County, slightly higher average wages for renters are washed out by higher rent. In Pennington, Meade, Custer, and Fall River counties, average renter wages are notably lower than the state average (Black Hills tourism evidently isn’t a major economic engine for wages) but average rents are well above the state average.
As Governor Noem shames Regents Board to stomp out the woke culture that has grown out of control under the watch of Messrs. Partridge and Rave, this sort of news will come to light more often.
“Woke culture?” Grudz outs himself as a nutcase.
There is a certain despair that clings to those living in a state that boasts a paltry Low Income Housing Wage. The normal desire to purchase something that every American pays the same price for seems to slip further from their grasp, as their pockets remain empty and their prospects dim.
You and your spouse can sit home, look through Amazon at things the kids want and be continually frustrated that your boss is getting rich off the labor you provide for less wages than others in liberal states earn for less work in less time.
Mr. Pay, grudznick just points out what is in the news.
https://aberdeeninsider.com/noem-wants-probe-of-sd-colleges-after-tip-line-brings-reports-of-mask-shaming-racial-directives-woke-culture/
grudnzick does not make this stuff up.
grudznichts – Just because a conservative with common sense or a conservative with no common sense complains about something doesn’t mean it’s a valid complaint with an available solution.
You see. Ever since Trump showed them, they can get away with it (some of the time) conservatives are falsely claiming to be a victim of anything they don’t agree with.
False victimhood is invalid and deserves no attention.
Calls she disagreed with were tagged disruptive, while those agreeable to her and quite likely encouraged or made by staff members were singled out as legitimate. I guess low intelligent politicians consider themselves a brilliant asset especially in SD.