About one in five children in Miami live in poverty
 Almost 10 percent of Florida families live in poverty
Miami Beach has the fourth-highest per
capita income in the country *
One out of four Florida households cannot afford a decent place to
live:
- In Florida, a minimum-wage worker earns an hourly wage of $6.40. In order to afford the FMR for a two-bedroom apartment, a minimum wage earner must work 102 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. (Go to NLIHC.org to learn more.)
- Broward County, the median home costs $222,000. To afford that house, a worker needs to earn more than $69,000 a year, economic experts say. The median annual income for a police officer, for example, is $51,800. (From floridadc.org)
- In Miami-Dade, the median-priced home costs $237,000, which requires an annual income of $73,866. Police officers there make an average of $49,390—a decent place to live. (From floridadc.org)
Only half of Florida employers offer health insurance
Three out of four low-wage workers are not offered health insurance
at all
Out of all U.S. metropolitan areas, Miami
has the highest degree of housing inequality. (BusinessWeek: The Inequality of Home Prices)
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