The Center for Women’s Welfare’s (CWW) serves as a resource and research center to support the continued development and refinement of The Self-Sufficiency Standard, related research, tools and products. Through its primary project, The Self-Sufficiency Standard, CWW researches and develops effective tools to measure poverty and income inadequacy by calculating the real cost of living
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s with a range of government, non-profit, women's, children's, and community-based groups to create and update the Self-Sufficiency Standard state by state, and CWW undertakes related research projects. The Standard is widely used by advocates, employers, policy makers, service providers, and case workers to improve career counseling services, target employment and training programs towards higher wage jobs, efficiently allocate services and education resources, and evaluate and design public policies - all with the goal of helping families reach self-sufficiency.
