Rhode Island Standard of Need (RISN)

The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator shows what it takes for individuals and families to afford basic necessities—including housing, food, child care, transportation, and health care—in counties and metropolitan areas across the country. Choose a location and household type to explore monthly and annual budgets, compare up to three communities, and better understand the income needed to meet basic needs.

Rhode Island's Economic Progress Institute thanks our national partners at the Economic Policy Institute for granting us permission to embed their Family Budget Calculator on our website. To view the calculator at it's original website, you can visit https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/, and to review the technical documentation, you can visit https://www.epi.org/publication/family-budget-calculator-documentation/. The general website for our national partner is https://www.epi.org/.