Miami Herald, February 28, 2017: (Opinion) ALICE report: More of us are living on the edge of poverty
“The real name of the ALICE report says it all. Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed measures ‘households that earn more than the federal poverty level but less than the cost of living for the county’ — plus median household income against a monthly household budget.
For Miami-Dade, the numbers were bleak this year, bleaker than for Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach counties: The agency found that, to varying degrees, 58 percent of our local 858,000 families live below the poverty level, or hover just above it.”