{"id":5084141,"date":"2020-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/connecticuts-income-inequality-hispanic-households-cant-afford-basic-needs\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:00:00","slug":"connecticuts-income-inequality-hispanic-households-cant-afford-basic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2020\/09\/28\/connecticuts-income-inequality-hispanic-households-cant-afford-basic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut\u2019s income inequality: Hispanic households can&#8217;t afford basic needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hispanic &#8211; Latino households in Connecticut face disproportionately\u00a0stagnating wages and a rising cost of living, according to\u00a0a recent report from the United Way.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asset Limited, Income-Constrained, and Employed (ALICE) analysis found that 63% of Hispanic &#8211; Latino and 57% of Black households fall into the ALICE category, while fewer than one-third of white households do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study also found that 38% of Connecticut\u2019s nearly 1.4 million households could not afford basic needs in 2018, including 11% that lived below the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ALICE report asserts that the federal poverty level establishes too minimal a standard, and attempts to quantify the income needed in Connecticut to purchase basic goods and services including housing, food, health and child care,\u00a0\u00a0transportation, and technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2020\/09\/06\/report-number-of-working-poor-on-the-rise-in-ct-leading-up-to-the-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> CTMirror.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of basic goods and services in Connecticut has risen faster than that of other expenses. Basic inflation between 2007 and 2018 was 1.8% while the cost of items on the ALICE survival budget rose 3.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report defines the minimum household survival budget in Connecticut as $28,908 annually for a single adult, $31,752 for a single senior, and $90,660 for a family of four that includes two young children. By comparison, the federal poverty level thresholds includes $12,140 for a single adult and $25,100 for a family of four.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report urges policymakers to continue seeking ways to elevate the earnings of poor families.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALICE households, which earned $14.3 billion in 2018, would need to make another $14.9 billion to clear that mark. Because poor families already save very little money, most of their earnings are spent, spurring additional economic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report projects that raising all households\u2019 earnings above the ALICE level would then generate about $2.9 billion in additional, federal, state, and local tax revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"Report: Number of working poor on the rise in CT leading up to the pandemic\">Report: Number of working poor on the rise in CT leading up to the pandemic<\/a> was first published by CTMirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publisher\u2019s Note:\u00a0CTLN\u00a0and CTMirror collaborate to best serve the Connecticut Hispanic, Latino community.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanic &#8211; Latino households in Connecticut face disproportionately\u00a0stagnating wages and a rising cost of living, according to\u00a0a recent report from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1729],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-hispanics-and-poverty"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Hispanic &#8211; 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