By Harriet Jones October 12, 2016 The proportion of people in Connecticut who are working, and yet still struggling to make ends meet has risen in the last two years. That’s according to a new study from United Way. They’re called ALICE; that’s the shorthand for people who are Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed. …
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By Lindsay Boyle October 9, 2016 Close your eyes for a moment and imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes: You’re a mom or a dad of two children, and you’ve just unexpectedly been laid off. You manage to quickly find a job that nets you about $450 a month, but it’s nothing compared to what …
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By Susan Corica October 11, 2016 Families struggling to meet basic needs are becoming more prevalent in the Nutmeg State, and particularly in cities like Bristol. Two years ago, United Ways introduced the ALICE [Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed] Report to highlight the increasing number of state residents who are working but are having trouble …
By Mark Zaretsky October 9, 2016 Two years after a United Way report found that 35 percent of Connecticut households were struggling, we are two years farther away from the Great Recession — but the percentage of families earning below a basic survival budget in Connecticut has grown a bit, a new report says. The …
Report: 38 percent of Connecticut residents can’t meet basic needs Read More »
October 12, 2016 Connecticut is generally considered a wealthy state- which leaves a lot of people feeling left out. Sure there are mansions on the Gold Coast and prosperity in some of the suburbs surrounding Hartford. But they don’t tell the whole story. The percentage of people who don’t make enough to pay for an …
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October 10, 2016 More Connecticut households are struggling to pay for their most basic needs, according to a new report from United Way. More than one out of four households – in one of the wealthiest states in the U.S. – are employed, yet still fall below what is needed to thrive financially. That is …
CT Families Continue to Struggle Financially, United Way Report Reveals Read More »
By Andrea Sears October 10, 2016 More than a quarter of Connecticut households have jobs but still have trouble making ends meet, according to an updated report from United Way. Meet ALICE, a term that applies to more than 350,000 households in Connecticut. It stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. And according to Richard …
By Kristi Allen October 10, 2016 The federal poverty rate is commonly regarded as inadequate for measuring the true scope of financial hardship in this country,” United Way of Western Connecticut CEO Kim Morgan said. “The ALICE report shows that the federal poverty rate is woefully inadequate to support an individual, let alone a family.” …
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By Ryan Blessing October 9, 2016 More households in Connecticut are struggling just to make ends meet, according to a new report released today by the United Way.The updated ALICE report says both the number and percentage of households in Connecticut struggling to pay for their most basic needs increased from 2012 to 2014. More …
Households struggling to make ends meet increases in Connecticut Read More »
October 9, 2016 We can see the homeless, though some of us may look away. But there is no social reflex for responding to the masses of neighbors who struggle to survive financially every day. A fallout of our long economic crisis is that it now eludes focus. The United Way has spent the last …
