ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.
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ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. The earnings of Maryland ALICE individuals and families are not enough to support a “survival budget” for life’s essentials: food, housing, healthcare, childcare, transportation, taxes, and technology.
The latest ALICE Report reveals that 39% of households can’t afford the state’s high cost of living. This percentage, based on 2018 data, is clearly higher in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating economic impact on our residents.
This report has also helped to inform further research into the benefits cliff—a term used to describe the loss of public benefits resulting from small increases in earned income.
Read the interactive ALICE Report
From March 15, to April 12, 2021, people living in Maryland were invited to take a survey about how their household has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since March 1, 2020.
ALICE holds positions such as cashiers, administrative and nursing assistants, waiters/waitresses, laborers and security guards and jobs in the retail and food industries. Essential to our economy, they can’t afford the essentials.
2 Adults, 2 Children
$87,156
$25,100
1 Individual
$33,636
$12,140
Watch the recordings from United Way’s Realities of Inequity: An impactful series that examines what’s preventing hardworking people from getting ahead; what United Way, our partners, and other local leaders are doing to help—and what you can do to break down barriers to inequity.
WATCH OUR SESSIONSof Marylanders can’t afford the basics
Survival Budget for family of 4
Annual salary, minimum wage job
The ALICE Report and Benefits Cliff Study are made possible by corporate partner, Kaiser Permanente.
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| The ALICE Report and Benefits Cliff Study are made possible by corporate sponsor, Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente is recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. Our belief that economic and environmental factors drive total health leads us to invest in approaches that have health, economic and social impacts and promote wellbeing for our members and communities, particularly those experiencing inequities and injustice. https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/ | United For ALICE is a grassroots movement of nearly 650 United Ways in 21 states, corporations, and foundations, all using the same methodology to document financial need. ALICE Reports provide county-by-county and town-level data, and analysis of how many households are struggling, including the obstacles ALICE households face on the road to financial independence. |
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