Meet ALICE — an acronym standing for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed — a recently identified group of working individuals or families in Midland County with an income above the federal poverty line but who still struggle to cover the basic costs of living in their community. They often live in survival mode and are one emergency away from slipping into poverty.

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