Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]> on 09/03/2001 12:22:49 PM





fyi ...

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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:29:35 +0100
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Subject: Minimum income standards in the United States <fwd>

> Study shows hardships for working families
>
> The Economic Policy Institute has produced a new
> study showing that 29% of working families in the
> United States with as many as three children under
> age 12 do not earn enough income to afford basic
> necessities.  The book examines the cost of living
> in every community in the U.S. and determines separate
> "basic family budgets" - the amount a family would
> need to earn to afford food, housing, child care,
> health insurance, transportation, and utilities -
> for each community. Go to: http://www.epinet.org
>
> An online supplement, the Family Budgets Calculator,
> generates an itemized budget for more than 400 metropolitan
> areas by various family types. Go to:
>
> http://www.epinet.org/datazone/fambud/index.html
>


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