“Nearly 6 in 10 low wage workers are Latino, and about half of those are immigrants. Most low wage workers live with at least one other worker and have no young children.”
There’s the problem right there. Your average (racist) American will look at that stat and go “So?”
Still, two people living together, each making $16 an hour, with no childcare to speak of… that sounds possible except in California.
$32 * 40 = $1,280 a week. * 52 = $66,560 a year.
You aren’t making it alone on 1/2 that, but combined seems plausible.