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Posted August 2001

Basic family budget studies by state:

Arkansas
Working Families and the New Economy: How Are Arkansas Families Really Faring in Today's Job Market? (October 2000), Arkansas Enterprise Group
http://www.arenterprise.org/public_policy/index.htm

California
Making Ends Meet: How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Family in California? California Budget Project, (916) 444-0500, www.cbp.org.

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for California (1996)
by Diana Pearce
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Colorado
Colorado Family Needs Budget
Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, http://www.cofiscalpolicyinst.org

District of Columbia and metropolitan area
Self-Sufficiency Standard for the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Hawaii
Barely Making It On Your Own in Hawai'i
American Friends Service Committee, (808) 988-6266 or afsc@pixi.com

Idaho
Northwest Job Gap Study
Northwest Policy Center, http://depts.washington.edu/npc/

Illinois
Midwest Job Gap Project
Northern Illinois University, http://www.ospr.niu.edu/midwest.htm

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Illinois (1998)
by Diana Pearce & Jennifer Brooks
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Indiana
Estimating a Basic Needs Budget for Indiana Families
Indiana Economic Development Council, http://www.ladders4success.org

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Indiana (1999)
by Diana Pearce & Jennifer Brooks
University of Washington, Wider Opportunities for Women,
http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm
Also available from the Indiana Coalition on Housing and Homeless Issues at http://www.ichhi.org

Iowa
The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Iowa (1996)
by Diana Pearce
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Kentucky
It's Not Just the Numbers: A Monthly Budget Case Study Update. Julie N. Zimmerman, Deb Kershaw, Lori Garkovich.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/SNARL/SEEDPubs/MonthlyBudgetUpdate.PDF

Maine
Getting by in 1999: Basic Needs and Living Wages in Maine
Maine Center for Economic Policy, http://www.mecep.org/getby/report.shtml

Maryland
Report on the Minimum Standard of Need (1997)
Montgomery County Community Action Board, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Community Action Board, (301) 565-7460.

Self-Sufficiency Standard for the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

How Much is Enough? Basic Family Budgets for Working Families
by Jared Bernstein, et al.
Economic Policy Institute (estimates for Baltimore, Md.)
http://www.epinet.org/books/howmuch.html

Massachusetts
The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Massachusetts (1998)
by Diana Pearce and Jennifer Brooks
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Michigan
Economic Self-Sufficiency in Michigan
Michigan League for Human Services, (517) 487-5436
http://www.milhs.org/Media/EDocs/SSOrderFormMay2007REV.pdf 

Midwest Job Gap Project
Northern Illinois University, http://www.ospr.niu.edu/midwest.htm

Minnesota
The Cost of Living in Minnesota
Jobs Now Coalition, http://www.jobsnowcoalition.org

Midwest Job Gap Project
Northern Illinois University, http://www.ospr.niu.edu/midwest.htm

Missouri
The Family-Supporting Wage for the St. Louis Region
East-West Gateway Coordinating Council, (314) 421-4220.

Montana
Northwest Job Gap Study
Northwest Policy Center, http://depts.washington.edu/npc/

Nebraska
Nebraska Economic Self-Sufficiency
Nebraska Appleseed Center, (402) 438-8853

New York
The Self-sufficiency Standard for the City of New York
prepared by Wider Opportunities for Women for the Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

North Carolina
Working Hard is Not Enough
North Carolina Budget and Tax Center
http://www.ncjustice.org/LivingWage/lwfullrpt.pdf

The Self-sufficiency Standard for North Carolina (1997)
by Janice Hamilton Outtz et al.
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Ohio
Midwest Job Gap Project
Northern Illinois University, http://www.ospr.niu.edu/midwest.htm

Oregon
Making the Transition to Self-sufficiency in Oregon
Oregon Coalition of Community Non-Profits and Children First for Oregon.
http://www.econw.com/reports.html

Northwest Job Gap Study
Northwest Policy Center, http://depts.washington.edu/npc/

Pennsylvania
The Job Gap in Pennsylvania: Are There Enough Living-Wage Jobs?
Keystone Research Center, (717) 255-7181.

The Self-sufficiency Standard for Pennsylvania (1999)
by Diana Pearce and Jennifer Brooks, University of Washington.
Wider Opportunities for Women, http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Basic Living Cost and Living Wage Estimates for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (1997)
by Ralph Bangs, et al.
University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh.

Tennessee
What Is a Living Wage for Memphis?
University of Memphis' Center for Research on Women, (901) 678-2770.

Texas
The Self-sufficiency Standard for Texas (1997)
by Janice Hamilton Outtz et al.
Wider Opportunities for Women. http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Vermont
The Vermont Job Gap Study
Peace and Justice Center, http://www.vtlivablewage.org/jobgapstudy.html

Virginia
The Self-sufficiency Standard for the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
Wider Opportunities for Women. http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

Washington
Northwest Job Gap Study
Northwest Policy Center, http://depts.washington.edu/npc/

Wisconsin
Midwest Job Gap Project
Northern Illinois University, http://www.ospr.niu.edu/midwest.htm

Wisconsin Family Income Resource Simulation Tool (interactive family budget for Wisconsin). http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org/

The Self-sufficiency Standard for Wisconsin
Wider Opportunities for Women. http://www.wowonline.org/pubs.htm

All 50 States
Working Hard, Earning Less
National Priorities Project (state-by-state breakdowns).
http://www.natprior.org/grassrootsfactbook/jobgrowth/jobgrowth.html

National
Poverty and Single Parent Families: A Study of Minimal Subsistence Household Budgets (1998)
by Trudi Renwick
Garland Publishing

"A Budget-Based Definition of Poverty"
by Renwick, Trudi and Barbara Bergmann.
The Journal of Human Resources, Volume 28, No. 1. May 1993..

The Forgotten Americans (1992)
by John Schwartz and Thomas Volgy
W.W. Norton.

Toward Valid Estimates of Poverty Among Families With Children: A New Measure of Relative Deprivation
by Susan D. Einbinder, (213) 740-3347

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