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At United Way, A Household Snapshot and Community Roundtables

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Published August 14, 2023 at 1:19 PM EDT

United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Here in the Chattanooga area, there are households where people are employed and working hard - but they still can’t afford food or pay an electric bill, and they have no safety net to weather a crisis.

These households are known as Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained and Employed - or ALICE.

The United Way of Greater Chattanooga is sharing the latest ALICE data on these households as the nonprofit launches a series of community roundtables as part of its Learn United initiative.

Hannah Lancaster is director of nonprofit support and innovation at United Way.

Explainer graphic on ALICE: Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed