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Evergreen Habitat raises its minimum wage to $15 per hour

The Columbian
Published: July 1, 2015, 12:00am

Vancouver-based Evergreen Habitat for Humanity said Wednesday it has increased its minimum wage to $15 per hour.

“We want to do our part to end poverty wages in Clark County,” Josh Townsley, the nonprofit’s executive director, said in a news release. “As an organization that helps families and individuals live in safe, decent, affordable housing, we believe that people need to make a living wage in order to make that happen.”

In Clark County, a person needs to make $30,840 a year to afford a one-bedroom rental, according to the nonprofit. For a family of four, the nonprofit said, annual family income needs to be $51,880 to afford a three-bedroom rental.

To afford those costs, the nonprofit said, people and families “need to be making more than the state-defined minimum wage of $9.47 an hour.”

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