> It’s no longer a cost of living crisis – it’s a cost of surviving crisis https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/not-cost-living-crisis-cost-surviving-crisis/
In the #BadEconomy across the pond, though you can replace UK for US in this essay, and it still applies.
FTA: "I signpost desperate members of the community to food banks, community lunches, or crisis loans when they finally overcome the initial barriers experienced in engaging with such services. I try to keep people away from or slipping back into a life of crime, when they have lived experience that crime can pay when being a conscientious citizen does not, because life itself contains too much injustice."
A. Rivera