"Our human services agencies are overwhelmed trying to meet basic needs of children and families.
State coffers are virtually empty, while the government is viewed as unable to meet basic needs.
It found that their main concerns were jobs, services to meet basic needs, and food.
It demands that "wages should always be enough to meet basic needs and to provide some discretionary income".
In any event wages should always be enough to meet basic needs and to provide some discretionary income.
Around two-thirds of workers told investigators that their take-home pay was insufficient to meet basic needs.
Last week, it asked for $977m immediately, to meet basic needs such as food, shelter and health care over the next six months.
By the way, the average workweek back then was 60 hours, which means that 48 hours (80percentt) was required to meet basic needs.
That could describe Franny and Shawn Wardlow, whose house in nearby Oregonia conjures middle-American stability rather than the struggle to meet basic needs.
The Poor: Those with insufficient means of livelihood to meet basic needs.
"Even if we have to meet basic needs, over the next 10 years we have to be electrifying more than 750 households every hour.
