How Maryland Compares to Other Places

A family made up of one adult, one preschooler and one school-age child in Worcester County needs $46,600 dollars a year simply to get by, a new study shows.

The cost of making ends meet for working families in Queen Anne’s County has nearly doubled over the last decade, according to a new study. No other county in the state has experienced such a great rise, the study showed.

A parent with two young children in Somerset County needs to make at least $42,000 a year to get by without government assistance, a new study says. That makes the county one of the most affordable in the state, but it’s also one of the poorest, and a local charity says families are struggling.

Costs for Carroll County families have risen more quickly than wages over the past decade, making self-sufficiency harder to achieve, according to a new study.

Families with young children need to earn nearly $55,000 a year to make ends meet in St. Mary’s County, a new study says.

A family of three — one adult, one preschooler and one school-age child — in Anne Arundel County needs an annual income of $67,865 just to meet their basic needs, a new report shows.

A family of three in Caroline County — an adult, a preschooler and a child in school — would need more than $44,500 to cover essential costs, including housing, child care, transportation, health care and food, a new study shows. That’s more than twice the federal poverty level, which is $19,090 in 2012, as calculated by the Department of Health and Human Services.