Alicia Hamiel, 23, a mother of two children in Philadelphia, earns $7.75 an hour at McDonald’s and works 26-38 hours a week, based on what the scheduler allots her. She and her family are currently living in a single room that rents for $400 a month.
Housing Budget Needs Increases, Not Cuts (Huffington Post)
Last week, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson testified before Congress, defending the Trump Administration’s proposed 15 percent cut to his agency’s budget. His testimony came just days after he called poverty a “state of mind,” emphasizing the importance of working and avoiding dependence on government assistance.
How Asian Americans Remade Suburbia (City Lab)