Wyoming Women’s Foundation’s 2024 Self Sufficiency Report shows 122% increase in expenses since ’05.
JACKSON — A single mother with two children has to make $45 an hour to be “self-sufficient” in Teton County.
The Wyoming Women’s Foundation’s 2024 Self Sufficiency Report reveals such a wage will cover a family’s basic expenses — transportation, groceries, health care, child care, taxes and housing (assuming rent is only $1,700 a month) — without room for most extraneous purchases.
When the foundation last released its report, in 2020, a three-person family in Teton County had to make $39 an hour. In 2005, it was $18 an hour.
“Yes, we all know that the costs have gone up,” said Rebekah Hazelto...
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