Coloradans Making Minimum Wage Must Work 95 Hours Per Week To Make Rent

DENVER (CBS4) – Rent is anything but affordable in Colorado, especially if you earn minimum wage.
According to the study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Coloradans must earn $21.97 per hour for a typical 40 hour work week, or work 95 hours at minimum wage, “in order to afford a modest, two-bedroom rental home.”
That places Colorado twelfth nationally as the least affordable place for rent based on earnings, one of 17 states where people need to make more than $20