Who is ALICE?

With the cost of living higher than what most wages pay, ALICE families - an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed - work hard and earn above the Federal Poverty Level, but not enough to afford a basic household budget of housing, child care, food, transportation, and health care(see Rapides Parish data from ALICE Report below). ALICE households live in every parish in Louisiana - urban, suburban and rural. They include women and men, young and old, of all races and ethnicities.

To access the Louisiana ALICE Report (released May 2023), please click here.

To access the United for ALICE data dashboard, click here.