The National Center for Children in Poverty has a new fact sheet out, called Measuring Income and Poverty in the United States.
The fact sheet deals with the following questions:
- How does the United States measure poverty?
- Why is the current poverty measure inadequate?
- Are there alternative ways to measure poverty?
- How much does it really take to make ends meet?
Based on the answers to these questions, NCCP has developed a "Basic Needs Budget" as an alternative measure of what it takes to make it in a number of communities across the U.S.
You can download the PDF document here.
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I didn't know about the Basic Needs calculation. There is a calculation called the Self-Sufficiency Standard. Here is a report on Florida's self-sufficiency standard prepared for Miami-Dade Human Services Council.
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