Posted on 01/29/2019 2:50:33 PM PST by bgill
More than four million, or 42 percent, of Texas households couldn’t afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation and technology in 2016, according to a new report released by United Ways of Texas. ALICE, or “Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed," are households that earn more than the federal poverty level (meaning they may not qualify for some help), but less than the basic cost of living in Texas. The ALICE project started as a pilot program in New Jersey and now includes 18 states... The report provides county-level information and tracks what Texas households experienced from 2007 to 2010, then 2016. For a family of four, the cost of basic household needs in 2016 was $52,956 and $19,428 for a single adult. “Not surprisingly, the number of households that could not afford basic needs increased by 14 percent during the Recession, but that number then increased by another 17 prevent during the recovery from 2010 to 2016, despite economic improvement,”... It costs an average of $1,133 per month for two children in licensed and accredited childcare, or $995 for registered home-based care.
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This sounds like garbage...................
Child care, transportation and technology are “basic human needs”?
How many are illegal immigrants?
Basic needs today means a 65” flat screen and 2000 channels.
This is gearing up for the 2020 elections, putting out garbage nonsense that the millenials will eat up..............
Get married and one stays home to take care of children thereby eliminating the cost of childcare
couldn’t afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation and technology in 2016
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Technology??? Like they couldn’t afford the latest two thousand dollar phone? Bummer.
The average human is half woman and half man.
BS. Extremely fake news
Between 2010 and 2016. No mention of Obama anywhere in the article.
so is that about United States citizens or does that include invader freeloaders? We live on less but do alright.
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“How many are illegal immigrants?”
And we have a winner....
OK, I gotta ask: if they earn “less than the basic cost of living” then how are they alive?
TOTAL BULLSHIITE.
Rubbish
Basic needs today means a 65” flat screen and 2000 channels.
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And the Facebook account to brag about it on a top of the line smartphone.
Anything less causes emotional suffering and PTSD requiring a registered service animal.
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