http://selfsufficiencystandard.org/sites/default/files/selfsuff/docs/NYC2014.pdf Read the attached report, Overlooked and Undercounted: The Struggle to Make Ends Meet in New York City, and answer the following questions. Note that you cannot answer all of the questions required in this assignment by only reading the executive summary. Each response should address all of the questions raised. What is the Self-Sufficiency Standard? How is this different from the federal poverty line? Discuss the differences in what they are measuring. Discuss the differences in the results are more people classified as living in poverty using one measure over another? Choose one of the report findings (not one that you may have already mentioned because there are A LOT!) and summarize the finding and its significance. Choose one of the policy recommendations. Each policy recommendation is comprised of subparts (i.e. Increase Wages to Align with the Cost of Living includes Increase Wage Floors, Index Wages, and Strengthen Employers Policies). Choose ANY one of the subparts and answer the following questions: What did you choose? Discuss how the proposed policy recommendation would help to fix the social problem.
