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Overlooked and Undercounted 2021: New York City

This report reveals the “overlooked and undercounted” of New York City, describing which families are struggling to make ends meet.

New Director

The Center is pleased to announce Lisa Manzer as the new Director of the Center for Women’s Welfare. Lisa first started with the Center in 2001 and is dedicated to continuing to support the Center’s research on poverty measurement and income adequacy.

The Self-Sufficiency standard for new york 2021

This report describes how much income families of various sizes and compositions need to make ends meet in New York.

Build Back Better

Working families in Washington State are struggling in the face of a mounting disparity between rising costs and stagnating wages: in 2019, 30.8% of working families with children in Washington State were unable to make ends meet as measured by the Self-Sufficiency Standard. While the 2020-2021 pandemic-related economic downturn illuminated severe financial deprivation, the pandemic has merely exacerbated economic inequality that existed prior to 2020. To interrupt the trend of increasing income inequalities, families need policies that provide more than temporary relief.

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A project of the Center for Women’s Welfare (CWW), the Self-Sufficiency Standard is a budget-based, living wage measure that defines the real cost of living for working families at a minimally adequate level. The Standard is an affordability measure and an alternative to the official poverty measure.

The Self-Sufficiency Standard determines the amount of income required for working families to meet basic needs at a minimally adequate level, taking into account family composition, ages of children, and geographic differences in costs.

Self-Sufficiency Standard by State

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