By Kevin Wilhelm September 14, 2020 Before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived this year, more than one-third of Connecticut residents already were struggling to make ends meet. It goes without saying that this pandemic has certainly not made things any easier. As an update to the 2018 ALICE report, Connecticut United Ways look at ALICE (asset …

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By Suzanne Potter September 8, 2020 Low-wage workers in Connecticut face enormous financial stress; suffering that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic, according to the just-released 2020 United Way ALICE report. ALICE stands for Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed, a measure designed to count families that make more than the federal poverty limit but …

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By Mike Patrick September 7, 2020 Just before the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lockdown, 28-year-old Keeley Haynes of Waterbury found out she was pregnant with her second child. The gas station where she worked as an assistant manager, cut employees’ hours, and laid off others, she said. A complication in her pregnancy put her on …

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By Keith Phaneuf September 7, 2020 The ALICE report asserts that the federal poverty level establishes too minimal a standard, and attempts to quantify the income needed in Connecticut to purchase basic goods and services including housing, food, health and child care, transportation and technology. That last item — technology — has become even more …

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By Tatiana Flowers September 7, 2020 In Stamford, by many measures a thriving, growing city, 43 percent of the population is struggling to get by — or doing even worse. In Greenwich, overall one of the wealthiest communities in the nation, 29 percent of residents are just making it, or have fallen into poverty. Statewide, …

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Interview By Diane Orson September 7, 2020 Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Connecticut, 38% of the state’s residents were already struggling to make ends meet — that’s according to a new report by the United Way of Connecticut. The data, from 2018, looks at families living at or near the poverty level and those who …

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By Eliza Fawcett September 6, 2020 More than a quarter of Connecticut households lived in financial precarity in 2018,according to a new report, but that figure has likely soared this year as the coronaviruspandemic has forced layoffs and wage reductions for many workers, local leaders said lastweek.The 2020 ALICE Report, released Sunday by the Connecticut …

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By Keith Phaneuf September 6, 2020 For more than a decade prior to the pandemic, a growing number of working poor families in Connecticut faced stagnating wages and a rising cost of living, according to a new report from the United Way. The latest biennial ALICE analysis — an acronym for Asset Limited, Income-Constrained and …

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By Amanda Cuda September 6, 2020 Latesha Burton works 40 hours a week as a client manager at an account managementcompany. The Danbury resident’s husband is an essential worker at a supermarket and,depending on the week, works between 20 to 30 hours. And yet, even as a dual-income family, Burton and her husband barely make …

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By Erica Moser September 06. 2020 In 2018, 38% of households in Connecticut and 33% in New London County didn’t earn enough to afford basic necessities, according to the newly released 2020 ALICE Report — Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed — from Connecticut United Ways. The report also noted that 13% of Connecticut residents are …

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