Skipping meals. Racking up debt. How inflation is squeezing single parents
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With daily life the most expensive it's been in 40 years, single-parent and single-caregiver families say they are running out of places to cut costs.
The price of groceries, gas, rent and utilities has marched higher over the past year; but wages have not kept up -- and more than half of single parents make less than $15 an hour, according to recent research from Oxfam.
That has left many single parents skipping meals so their children have plenty of food, providing less healthy meals for their families, and culling expenses to the point where any unforeseen cost could mean more debt -- or worse.
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