The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More

This is a great story on poverty from the Washington Post. The writer provides specific examples to help the reader visualize each experience, which makes the article a little lengthy, but necessarily so. If you've never lived below the poverty line, I encourage an open mind.

Quick expert....

You have to be rich to be poor.

That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand.

Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't often explain.

So we'll explain it here. Consider this a primer on the economics of poverty. Read more>>