LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A new study says a single parent in Michigan with a preschooler and school-age child needs to earn more than three times the state's minimum wage to be economically secure.

Wider Opportunities for Women and the Michigan League for Human Services released the report Tuesday.

The study says the wage-earner in that family of three needs to earn about $52,000 a year with benefits to cover child care, housing, health care, transportation, savings and retirement.

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