This Hartford Courant editorial about ALICE is worth a read: A major theme of the ALICE study is that the federal poverty line doesnt remotely reflect the actual cost of living in the state... The federal poverty line for a family of four is about $24,000 a year. The household survival budget says a family of four needs $64,689 to meet the cost of living in Connecticut. That requires a job that pays $32.34 an hour. But 51 percent of the jobs in Connecticut pay less than $20 an hour.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:42:17 +0000