It's the Poor Who Pay More

The writer James Baldwin said, "Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

Recessions have an awful way of proving this true.

These days "you have to be rich to be poor," Post staff writer Deneen L. Brown wrote in a fascinating piece for the Style section.

When you are poor (and according to the Census Bureau, more than 37 million Americans live below the poverty line), you pay more in money, time, exhaustion and hassle, Brown so sadly illustrates in her story in which she details the "economics of poverty." Here are a few of the basics discussed in the article:

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