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CityLab Daily: What You Have to Earn to Rent a Modest Two-Bedroom

Also today: How Ohio’s voter purge targets cities, and Seattle’s “Amazon tax” is dead.
The hours per week a person earning minimum wage would have to work in order to afford a one-bedroom. NLIHC

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Buckeye voting: On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold a voter purging practice in Ohio, which drops voters from registration lists after missing just one federal election. The places most affected by the voter roll clearing will be the Buckeye State’s largest metropolises of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus.