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Here's the minimum expense breakdown for DFW from MIT which the article is based on: https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/19100 (totaling $32,371 for a 1 adult 0 child household, for which they use a zero-bedroom apartment).

Note that the median household income pre-tax is $58.2k (Dallas, 2.5 persons/household) to $67.9k (FW, 2.8 persons/household). So a single earning 65k after tax complaining that that's near poverty line sounds pretty entitled to me. (For LA the median gross income is $69.8k for 2.75 persons/household.)

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/dallascitytexas...

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/losangelescitycalifornia



These are pre-covid numbers in the MIT breakdown. A lot has changed.




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