The content of this paper should be 4 or more pages in length without appendix a

The content of this paper should be 4 or more pages in length without appendix and reference.
Page 1 – Title page
Page 2 – Self-Sufficiency Work Sheet
Page 3 – Summary of your reflection on the research for this project
Page 4 – Summary of your experience on shopping for SNAP (Food Stamp)
Page 5 – Recommendations for the Government Program SNAP
Page 6 – References need to be written in APA Style from APA Manual
Page 7 – Appendix: A shopping list
Part I (Cost of Living)
The goal of this assignment is to give you a sense of how much money a single parent with a toddler needs in order to be self-sufficient in different cities.

Students must choose a city in the US (e.g. Jackson Mississippi, Little Rock Arkansas, Yakima Washington, Columbus Ohio, San Francisco California, Manhattan New York, El Paso Texas, Honolulu, HI, Chicago Illinois, or Boston Massachusetts) that they are unfamiliar with.

The worksheet will aid you in calculating the estimates of the cost of housing, child care, food, health care, transportation, taxes etc. Remember this family (Mother and toddler) should be living at a level where they need no assistance, either private or public, of any kind.

In this assignment, A mother and her baby are moving to another city and you need to know how much it will cost someone to live (Housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, Miscellaneous and taxes (use state tax rate): as a single parent with a 3 year old toddler.

To complete this assignment students should:

Review the worksheet Self Sufficiency Project Worksheet and make an estimate of the overall monthly amounts a single parent with a three year old toddler would need in each category (Rental, child care, food, transportation, health care, miscellaneous (other living expenses). This is a best guess.
Investigate the actual amounts needed in each of the expense categories (Rental, child care, food, transportation, health care, miscellaneous). Look in real estate guides for rental costs, call service providers to get an estimate for child care, health care, bus service (or Car- monthly payment/Auto insurance).
Imagine that you are trying to settle into a new place with limited sources. You can use the internet, newspapers from various cities; call the chamber of commerce or city government offices of the various cities.
Although you can use http://www.thecalculator.org/ to check the average of living expenses, you cannot use this as only source for project. When you find out the price for rental or child care, you need to justify why you choose rental/place at this particular area (e.g. less expensive, safety etc.). You should include sources you used to find out living expenses.
Complete the entire worksheet including: Estimate monthly expenses (Rental, child care, food, transportation, health care, miscellaneous (other living expenses) and taxes (use state tax rate) as well as annual and hourly income that a single parent with a three year old toddler would need. You need to figure weekly or monthly and then convert to a yearly number.
Again, record your sources.
Reflection ~ students should reflect on the assignment, writing a one-page paper outlining their experience, what (if any) challenges they experienced and what they learned about the cost of living in a different city.
Part II: Weekly Budget Assignment
It is important that social work students have personal experience with issues that affect low-income clients.
Go food shopping for one week (7 days) with a make-believe $40 [SNAP (A.K.A. Food stamp)]: average monthly benefit per person in 2012 = $ 135.18 in Alabama). This is the amount of money needed by a household of one adult per week on a living wage salary. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average food stamp benefit is approximately $3 a day per person.
This assignment will help you get an idea of the challenges a person receiving food stamp encounters in Alabama. For this assignment, actually go to any grocery store and make a grocery list with your make-believe $40 or buy food (Note: In the past, a number of students choose to live on a food stamp budget to experience what it is like to live within the budget and rules of the food stamp program for one week. If you want, you are more than welcome to do so and share your experience of a week of living on a food stamp diet.).
Part II of the assignment has 4 parts:
A menu – students must write a menu out for each day including breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu should follow guidelines for healthy eating (not junk food!)
A grocery list – students should submit a grocery list of what items are needed for the weekly menu
A grocery total ~ a list of items “purchased” and how much each item cost – no need to include tax
Reflection ~ students should reflect on the assignment, writing a one-page paper outlining their experience, what (if any) challenges they experienced and what they learned about living on a SNAP wage.
Please make sure to check eligible items from SNAP websites (i.e. https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items) to determine what food items are eligible to purchase.
Please do not include tax (e.g. If you spent $38 for your grocery before sales tax, this means you can spend 2 more dollars. Grocery stores are prohibited from charging sales tax on food purchased with EBT food benefits). You can choose whichever grocery store you desire.
The content of this paper should be 4 pages in length without appendix and references.
Title page 1 (see APA manual or Purdue Owl for assistance in writing format)
Part I (75 points)
Self-Sufficiency Work Sheet (page 2)
Summary of your reflection on the finding of this project (page 3)
Part II (75 points)
Summary of your experience with SNAP (Food Stamp) (page 4)
References (sources for your information)
Appendix: Menu, Grocery list and prices/total.
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