Entry level houses cost like $300k in Buffalo. I think one can afford to raise a family there if the primary breadwinner is making $70k and the other spouse is a schoolteacher or something.

I just don't see the problem, at all. If he pays too little people will work anywhere else and he'll need to raise wages, or people will work there and apparently be satisfied?

Market forces, stop pretending that he needs to be an activist businessman, where that sort of behavior is generally frowned upon when for example certain beer companies advertise in the wrong way

Buffalo, NY is a pretty low cost area. $70k with two kids means $0 in Fed taxes.

Meh, okay neighborhood.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/44-Bolton-Pl-APT-1-Buffalo-NY-14210/402413320_zpid/