April 27th, 2021
The ALICE project by United for ALICE identifies households that are struggling financially but not usually captured by traditional measures of poverty such as the federal poverty level. “ALICE” is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed. ALICE households represent working families who earn enough that they have limited eligibility for government assistance, but are still struggling to afford basic living essentials.
In the Hudson Valley, Greene County has the highest percentage of ALICE households and the second highest percentage of households in poverty. On the other end of the spectrum, Putnam county has the highest percentage of households that are neither ALICE households nor in poverty. Overall, this chart illustrates that there are a substantial number of households in the region with financial hardship.
