"How Much Is Enough? Basic Family Budgets for Working Families" by Jared Bernstein, Chauna Brocht, and Maggie Spade-Aguilar EPI's latest book provides a detailed analysis of the food, housing, health care, clothing, child care, and transportation cost estimates used in determining a "basic family budget" necessary for a modest standard of living. The book also identifies the best practices from the existing literature in deriving these costs and scrutinizes the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches and data sources used to determine these budgets. For a general overview, take a look at the table of contents, executive summary, or introduction online. http://www.epn.org/whatsnew/full_cite/57.html