This article documents the challenge of acquiring child care subsidies in Philadelphia in the article “The Difficulty of Obtaining a Child Care Subsidy: Implications for Policy and Practice.”
The Self-Sufficiency Standard was an integral tool for increasing Hawaii’s minimum wage to $6.75 on January 1, 2006 and $7.25 on January 1, 2007.
Georgetown University students ended a nine-day hunger strike when the University administration agreed to improve wages for the low-paid custodial, food service, and security workers.
In December 2005, the Human Services Coalition of Dade County in Florida, issued a policy brief titled Nonprofits, Government, and the New War on Poverty: Beating the Odds in a Global Economy, which used the Standard to examine Florida’s human services sector from an economic and community perspective.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) won a higher wage floor in contract negotiations after the Insight Center for Community Economic Development used the Self-Sufficiency Standard in a wage analysis of University of California service workers, entitled High Ideals, Low Pay: A Wage Analysis of University of California Service Workers.
A 2002 report, Income Adequacy and the Affordability of Health Insurance in Washington State, used the Self-Sufficiency Standard as a basis for assessing the affordability of public and private health insurance coverage programs.