"A single
parent with a preschooler and a school-age child in Seattle needs to earn
$56,904 a year.
In East King
County, the same family would need $65,690 a year, the highest self-sufficiency
cost in the state. The lowest, Wahkiakum County, is $32,997.
A lot of
working people, of course, don't make even that much.
Washington's
minimum wage is the highest in the nation, and it is scheduled to go up Jan. 1
to $9.04 an hour.
According to
the report, at the new level, that three-person family would have enough income
to cover less than half its living expenses."
Jerry Large | Poverty Report: What's the Cost of Living? | The Seattle Times
