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There are a bunch of excellent articles exploring the concept of "it's expensive to be poor" but here's my favorite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteve

• jamesrcole 8y ago
  I'm aware of that. I'm asking whether the "Most Americans..." claim (in relation to essentials like toilet paper) is true. The closest that article gets to that is "More than 40 percent of Americans say they struggle even to make ends meet each month and would be unable to cover an unexpected $400 expense without real hardship" but to me that's not really answering the question