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Cost of Living is Higher for the Poor

There is a common misperception that people experiencing poverty do not have enough discipline to save and pull themselves out of poverty. The truth is that it is expensive to be poor.

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Author Lisa GieskesPosted on August 5, 2013September 12, 2016Categories personal-accounts, social-exclusion-and-inclusion

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