A calculation error has parents in the dark about how much money they have in their Maryland 529 accounts to support their kids in college.

In yesterday’s Go Home Already, I linked to a story which talked about the results of a report conducted by Wider Opportunities for Women. The report discussed the amount of money that people under certain conditions in different areas around the Washington metro area need to make in order to feel financially “secure.” Of course, there’s serious wiggle room in that phrase, and plenty of commenters argued the validity of the numbers cited — for instance, a single person without children to support in the District was deemed to need a yearly income of $32,000 per year to be “stable.” I finally got a chance to peruse the report, titled “The Basic Economic Security Tables for the Washington, DC Metro Area,” this morning, and thought that I’d share some of the information inside of its pages for you to squabble over.