New this morning stunning numbers just released giving a better look at families dealing with financial struggles in wisconsin. In fact this reports Shows Nearly Half of all wisconsin families are struggling to make ends meet. Ann sterling is live in oak creek to explain. United way of wisconsin just released this report. It reveals that 42 percent of families here in wisconsin earn below what is known as an alice threshold. This report is long but i went through it to give you this break down. First off lets define an alice household. It is a working household they hold jobs and pay taxes positions include retailsales People Office clerks laborers and movers and Customer Service reps. The core issue is that these jobs do not pay enough for the basics transportation, and health carebottom line according to this report many households earning . . More than the federal Poverty Level stilldo not earn enough to afford the basics. In wisconsin, there are nearly 671 thousand alice households
Arp Elementary School, Smith County Clubhouse and the City of Longview received Reliable Flexible Funding grants from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to help fund mental health work in their respective communities. The grants will be distributed over the course of five years.
May 13—WENATCHEE — Mental health continues to affect youth today, but according to the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey the state has seen a decrease in those affected.
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