Last week, KQED wrote about a new budget calculator released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that attempts to offer a contrast to the Federal Poverty Guidelines, which say a family of four is “officially” poor only if it earns less than $23,550.
What EPI hoped to do was illustrate that in plenty of places (the San Francisco Bay Area certainly being one of them), $23,550 isn’t even close to enough for that four-person family.
But, as many readers noted, the numbers that EPI comes up with might not be enough either.
Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.