Interview: Stephanie Hoopes, director of the United for ALICE program
Roughly one-third of New Jersey households continue to face persistent financial hardship in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, according to a new report. That figure, which totals about 1.3 million households in the Garden State, includes people living below the poverty line as well as so-called ALICE households: people who are asset-limited, income-constrained and employed.
Stephanie Hoopes, the director of the United for ALICE program, discusses the report.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
