Forty-three percent of Michigan households struggle to afford necessities like housing, childcare, food, health care and transportation.
That’s according to the United Way’s 2017 “Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed,” or ALICE Report.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer created the Michigan Poverty Task Force in 2019 to change those statistics and help low-income Michiganders.
WKAR's Sophia Saliby speaks with Kim Trent, a member of the state's Poverty Task Force, about the group's recent report.