Australia’s cost of living ‘getting crazier’ as nearly half of lower-income families worry about affording school shoes
by Caitlin Cassidy from World news | The Guardian on (#72N7N)
Nine in 10 families are worried about price of back-to-school essentials as inflation continues to bite, research has found
Budgeting for Laura, a single mother of four, often means deciding between buying enough food or paying her electricity bill on time.
Some weeks we're good, some weeks we're down and I have to go into the community and ask for vouchers," she says. The down weeks have been happening more since the pandemic.
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