Report: 38% of New Jersey Households Are Not Meeting Basic Needs
You can’t have everything you want (or need) in ALICE’S New Jersey
1.2 million New Jersey households, including 890,000 households with employed adults (28% of the states population) are not making ends meet, according to a report released by the United Way of Northern New Jersey.
The working poor are dubbed as Asset Limited, Income Constrained and Employed (ALICE) by the UWNNJ. These are families of four earning less than $62,000 and single adults earning less than $28,000…the income levels needed to provide housing, food, child care, health care and transportation in New Jersey according to the report.
The report says that 53% of all jobs in New Jersey pay less than $20 per hour or $40,000 per year.
71% of ALICE households are white. 31% are in the prime wage earning years of 45-64.
85% of New Jersey’s 560 towns have 20% of their population struggling to survive.
The study is based on data through 2012 and does not fully measure the impact that Superstorm Sandy had on New Jersey’s economy.
Posted: September 15th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Economy, Monmouth County, New Jersey | Tags: ALICE report, Monmouth County, New Jersey, New Jersey Economy, United Way of Northern New Jersey, working poor | Comments Off on Report: 38% of New Jersey Households Are Not Meeting Basic Needs