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ALICE Conversations: Janice’s Story
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June 28, 2021
Janice always thought she had terrible luck with money and it caused her to worry. “It was impossible for me to save for emergencies. I just don’t have much income.” It’s hard to feel like your livelihood and home are secure without any savings.
That all turned around thanks to a program that was designed to help Hawai‘i’s ALICE residents people just like Janice. ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed and it’s a new way to define and understand the households that earn above the Federal Poverty Level, but not enough to afford a bare-bones household budget.
The United Way of Collier and the Keys donated $18,750 to the Star of the Sea Foundation for Monroe County Healthy Food Recovery and Distribution efforts.
The Florida Keys boasts the highest food cost index and highest cost of living in the entire state, leaving many Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (ALICE) families unable to afford healthy food for themselves and their children.
By working with non-profit Farm Share and local grocers such as Publix and Winn Dixie, SOS redirects perfectly edible fresh produce, proteins, and staple food items each week from dumpsters and landfills to the tables of thousands of families, children and seniors across the Keys.
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Parents seeking child care struggle with access, costs
JOSHUA BYERS, The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat
June 26, 2021
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP)
As Megan Garman’s due date approached, she began making calls to several child care centers in the Johnstown area to get her daughter enrolled, but found herself signing up for waiting list after waiting list.
“It’s very, very stressful,” she said.
Garman began her search more than one year ago and is still waiting for a slot to open up. Thankfully, she said, a family member was able to fill in, but the working mother knows that’s not a permanent solution.