"So they're working, but they really aren't making ends meet."
That's what Kari Olson, grants and scholarship programming director for the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, had to say about people in Brown County, Wis., who are struggling to make ends meet.
The foundation's 2023 Stand Together Foundation has awarded $180,500 to six local non-profit organizations to help those in the "ALICE" category, meaning "asset-limited, income-constrained, but still employed," per NBC News.
"The costs for childcare continue to rise and for most families there's just no support," says Alexa Priddy, development director for Encompass Early Education and Care, one of the recipients.
The Green Bay Press Gazette reports more than 39,000 households in the county, which also includes Kewaunee and Oconto counties, struggled to afford the basic cost of living in 2021.
The ALICE threshold is defined by the United for ALICE organization as people who make less than 30% of the federal poverty line, or about $35,000 for a family of four.
The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation has awarded more than $1.5 million to local non-profit organizations since 2018 to help those in the community regain economic stability, per NBC News.
The new funding will
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