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Housing Expenses. The website gave $176.48 per week
as the ave- rage amount a minimum-wage worker pays
for housing. However, it didn’t explain where this figure
comes from or what it includes. An artic- le about the
challenge in TIME suggests that rent and utilities
(monthly bills for gas, electricity, and telephone
service) should be treated as part of the $176.48
weekly housing costs, not part of the $77 weekly
budget, which is money leftover after housing expenses
are deducted.

Final Budget. Deducting the taxes and housing costs
from a $290 weekly salary leaves $78.46 per week. It’s
not clear why the organizers of the challenge chose to
round that figure down to $77 a week – per- haps it was
to make it divide evenly by seven, giving a budget of
$11 per day. This amount has to cover all non-housing
expenses, including food, healthcare, transportation,
childcare, and entertainment.

Stories From the Challenge