Focus

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Public Interest News Network (PINN) currently focuses on military veterans and their families, which include ALICE households and other intergenerational community members served by the United Way and AARP. ALICE households are Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. For a growing number of  ALICE households in the United States,  financial stability is nothing more than a pipe dream, no matter how hard they work, and many live in news deserts where there is an obvious digital divide.

ALICE households earn above the Federal Poverty Level yet struggle to afford basic expenses. Households of color, older and younger people and single parents continue to fall disproportionately under the ALICE Threshold, forced to decide between household essentials like rent and prescriptions. https://www.unitedforalice.org/home - https://www.unitedforalice.org/focus-veterans

PINN works to empower ALICE families and other community members, along with the states and cities they populate, to demonstrate their collective resilience and self-determination in helping to shape public policy and benefit from the process. They can play vital roles in building healthy, safe and age-friendly communities in which they can live, work, play and prosper. We work primarily in communities where local news deserts and broadband inequities exacerbate the digital divide.