Tag: UW School of Social Work

• 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. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: The best-known measure of income adequacy, the Official Poverty Measure, (OPM) is too low with flawed and…