I used an online tax calculator, for those of you coming with excuses. There’s absolutely no way to live on $17, and they’re going to wait until 2028? And ppl think this is fighting for something? Can we stop pretending politicians care about the working class?

@ThiaBallerina Get a two bedroom and a roommate.

@PattieMeyer2022 Or make a living wage. Get it?

@ThiaBallerina Listen I understand you're just clout seeking and you live in a bubble. But you do realize that the idea would be for LA to have a separate higher minimum wage?

@TADStrange89 I’m a cartoon. I’m not here to be popular. 😂

@ThiaBallerina Don't live in LA.

@BrandonMWalsh82 🦜

@ThiaBallerina The landlord won't rent that apartment to you if you don't make 3x the rent.

@MindaSueC Good point!

@ThiaBallerina Move. Who wants to live in LA at this point anyway. 🤮🤮🤮

@ThiaBallerina Sounds normal to me. I couldn’t afford my own place early on in my career either, 30 years ago. I was in Detroit, hardly a desirable area. I had to have a roommate, then I grew my career and was eventually able to move up.

@ThiaBallerina @KyloElsa 2100 for a 1 bedroom in LA actually sounds like a deal (if you are talking LA proper, not just somewhere in LA county) and I mean that in the absolute worst way possible.

@ThiaBallerina To those saying move: I live in the Midwest and it cost me about $2000 to move, not including security deposits for a new place. That was just the gas and moving expenses. Security deposits in a small town in Wisconsin is about $2000, plus another $1000 for rent.

@ThiaBallerina Easy, move to a more affordable place. Get roommates, sacrifice a little privacy to live more affordably. After you’ve done that, make yourself more valuable to an industry local to that area and get a better job, or create a better job for yourself.

@ThiaBallerina You're not. They want us desperate or dead.

@ThiaBallerina You need two roommates earning at least as much for this apartment to be affordable for the three of you. Obviously for adults this is hardly a practical solution for a long term. Your fault lies in picking the wrong parents :-) The love parents give override their bank balance.

@ThiaBallerina My advice is to that that $2,249 and get out of LA. @$17/hr you can get a job most anywhere and start the next day. Let the elite in LA get their own coffee, clean their own homes, bag their own groceries... Watch Fight Club.

@ThiaBallerina $21.22 is minimum living wage for single person with no children in LA. this requirement more than doubles to $43.81 with a dependent child.

@ThiaBallerina Roommates

@kleenbreeze2 Oh really. What if they were born there?Should they just move. With no money? 🥴🥴🥴 should they only live in “poor places” where you’re expected to be poor? 🥴🥴🥴 lol. You sound very smart.