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About Overlooked & Undercounted
Developing strategies to ensure New York City households reach economic security requires data that defines how much is enough and which households are struggling. This report reveals the “overlooked and undercounted” of New York City, describing which families are struggling to make ends meet. This analysis is based on the New York City Self-Sufficiency Standard, renamed the True Cost of Living in New York City, a realistic, geographically specific, and family composition-specific measure of income adequacy, and thus a more accurate alternative to the Official Poverty Measure. Over the last 27 years, calculation of the Self-Sufficiency Standard, now in 42 states, has documented the continuing increase in the real cost of living, illuminating the economic crunch experienced by so many families today.
This report utilizes the 2023 New York City True Cost of Living (formerly known as the Self-Sufficiency Standard for New York City), therefore the costs (housing, child care, health care, transportation, taxes and tax credits, and miscellaneous expenses) are representative of 2023 data. See “Appendix A: Methodology, Assumptions, & Sources” for more information on specific sources.
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This report and more are available online at www.selfsufficiencystandard.org /NewYork and https://www.fcny.org/nyc-true-cost/. For further information about the Self-Sufficiency Standard, please visit www.selfsufficiencystandard.org or contact Self-Sufficiency Standard lead researcher and author, Annie Kucklick, at (206) 685-5264/akuckl@uw.edu
The conclusions and opinions contained within this document do not necessarily reflect the opinions of those listed above. Any mistakes are the author’s responsibility.
2023 Center for Women’s Welfare and the Fund for the City of New York Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in New York City (https://www.selfsufficiencystandard.org/ NewYork ) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).
