We're looking at something that is one step above a bare-bones budget,

There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.

We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.

What's troubling about the economic recovery that we've been in is that all of the traditional indicators of employment, household income and poverty levels are lagging behind prior expansions.

The bottom-line difficulty is that many low-income folks don't have money to save, even if they desperately want to.

A lot of people are struggling to get by.