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As a single parent, how much money do you need to make to be able to cover your expenses all by yourself, without public aid? It turns out that it is quite a bit, at least in Massachusetts. The Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU), a Boston-based nonprofit group, said that you will need to make somewhere around $30 per hour and hold a full-time job, just to get by.
The least expensive region was identified to be Franklin County, where a single parent with two children will need $48,874, while the most expensive area was Norfolk County with $68,201. He state’s average is $61,608.
“The figures we’re releasing today are sobering,” said Elisabeth D. Babcock, CWU’s President and CEO. “Essential living costs have continued to escalate in the state, when at the same time median incomes here are now lower than in 2002. And it’s worse for those at the bottom twenty-five percent of the economic ladder, who have not only seen their earnings drop by 7% in the past twenty years, but have fewer and fewer job opportunities that will gain them a foothold in the middle class.”
The press release can be found here.
