Americans are still working and make too much to qualify for most government benefits but not enough to cover all their bills. Stephanie Hoopes, the national director of United For ALICE, said that removing complicated paperwork and verification steps could streamline applications for aid programs.
Date: Dec 30, 2024
Category: Business
Source: Google
41% of NJ households among the 'working poor' and it's getting worse. Is the state too expensive?
Stephanie Hoopes -- one of the founding authors of the study, which began 10 years ago in New Jersey -- said the rate of inflation in the past 10 years has been about 9 percent, but the cost of living for ALICE families has risen by nearly twice that.
Date: May 17, 2018
Category: Business
Source: Google
One-third of Lower Hudson Valley struggling, United Way ALICE project finds
In the states that weve looked at, New York is the only state with more jobs in 2014 than 2007," said Stephanie Hoopes, director of the United Way ALICE project and lead researcher on the New York report. "But, again, New York City is the engine for most of that, and the rest of the state is more