>"households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone"
Literally the first line of the article.
Literally the first line of the article.
Child care is also assumed here, but is not necessary in a two-parent home. Take that off the board and you free up around $15k, as well as some of the tax money as well. And does that tax estimate include the $2k/kid child tax credit?
What is "Miscellaneous"?
The hourly wage assumes a 2000-hour work year. So theoretically two people could work $15.50/hour jobs and meet this requirement, or you could knock the food budget in half, drop child care, and get the total hourly wage down to $21.50 an hour. That could be one parent working 20 hours a week at $10/hr and another working 40/week at $17/hr. Or someone could earn extra hours to get some spending money. I do that to supplement my family's income.
I dunno. "Survival" is such a strong word, and I'm really skeptical that it applies here.
It's defined in the report.
"10 percent of the budget total (including taxes) to cover cost overruns."