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Earning More but in Worse Shape: Hardship Overwhelms Many American Families
Nearly half of kids in the U.S. live in households below the middle class as inflation and the end of Covid relief hit working parents; a $2.90 raise that cuts government benefits
By Dan Frosch / WSJ
By government standards, Lisa Meazler and her three daughters aren’t technically poor.
Meazler earns $37,500 a year, working for a nonprofit that helps connect new mothers with services. She owns her own home, a small house with blue siding and a backyard in a quiet neighborhood outside Binghamton.
Some nights, Meazler, 43, wonders how far it’s gotten her. She hasn’t been able to afford to take the girls, ages 7, 13 and 22, on a real vacation for years. She winces when her middle child, Emmi, asks why she can’t make “normal dinners” like other families, referring to the home cooked meals Emmi eats with friends instead of the cheaper frozen food her mom serves. Meazler tells her they don’t have money like other families.
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