How much is “enough”?
A question I’ve heard over and over in Horizons communities throughout the state, starting way back in Study Circles, is, “how much exactly is enough to make ends meet?”
The Minnesota JOBS NOW Coalition has a great tool that can help answer this question for your area: the Family Wage and Budget Calculator, available on their website. You can find your county, enter a family size and number of hours worked per week outside the home (one adult working, two adults working full time, etc.), and based on regional data and basic, no-frills budget amounts for food, transportation, child care, etc., it will calculate the hourly wage needed to support a family under those conditions.