New poverty report: One-third of San Diego families can’t make ends meet

One-third of San Diego County’s working-age households don’t earn enough money to make ends meet, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Center on Policy Initiatives.

“This means that over a million people in San Diego are living in economic insecurity, are living on the edge, and are worried about their next meal,” said Peter Brownell, research director for the institute, a nonprofit economic and social justice analysis and advocacy group.

The numbers are better than they were in 2014, the last time the institute issued a similar report. Then, about 38 percent of San Diego families were below the “self-sufficiency standard.”