There’s a name for working families who are surviving but not thriving in Rhode Island: ALICE

In her neon yellow shirt and pink hard hat, Ashlynn Jorge extended her arm and held her palm out to halt traffic approaching a sidewalk construction site on Kay Street in Newport shortly before 10 o’clock Thursday morning. But the 26-year-old union laborer can’t stop the bills. Jorge earns about $4,800 a month. But rent […]

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