Tag: Official Poverty Measure

• Exploring new understandings of the cost of living at a basic needs level using the Self-Sufficiency Standard database

  

  Project leads: Annie Kucklick, Research Coordinator, and Lisa Manzer, Director, Center for Women’s Welfare, University of Washington School of Social Work Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton DSSG fellows: Azizakhon Mirsaidova, Priyana Patel, Cheng Ren, Hector Sosa. Project Summary The best-known measure of income adequacy, the Official Poverty Measure, (OPM) is too low with flawed and problematic methodology. Since its…