According to the DBEDT Self-Sufficiency Estimates (2015), Hawaii County had the lowest overall self-sufficiency income requirements among the counties across all family types. Economic self-sufficiency is define as the amount of money that individuals and families require to meet their basic needs without government assistance and/or other subsidies (DBEDT, 2015). The results in the estimates assumed that adults are working full-time, that is 40 hours a week. The Hawaii County self-sufficient level by family type are summarized in the Appendix 1. Figure 1 shows the comparison of each county’s self-sufficiency requirements. The latest Self-Sufficiency Requirement (SSR) estimates shows that the County of Hawaii scored the lowest requirements
