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Cost Of Inequality Story 9
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Hi, Mark. Thanks for agreeing to be part of this project.
My name is Jean-claude Kabo.
I'm one of the community reporter.
I've got one question for you. Only today.
How's the cost of living crisis affecting you?
Good question. Um,
the
I think you can look at it in so many ways. Um,
physical,
mental
and, um psychological, probably
with the cost of living crisis.
I think you would recognise that all our incomes have remained where it is.
We've had prices hike up
when you go to the shop. Now, all the, um,
all the everything that we buy now has tripled. Doubled?
Um, I used to go to Aldi. Um, the family budget was normally around
6, 50 to £60 a week.
Now, with the cost of living crisis, we go to all the the same shop now,
and we are looking at around
£90 for, uh, for the week,
and at the same time, I haven't seen any increments in our salary,
So that has been really difficult, you know,
um, cost II. I It has, um, increased, um, stress.
Um, my mental health has just, you know,
gone up the roof because you're thinking about where
you're gonna get money to. Kind of like, um,
pay Peter,
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Now, um, the second thing I can tell you, um,
about the cost of living crisis is around bills.
The bills have also gone up.
Um, council tax bills have gone up. Utility bills have gone up.
Um, it's the same salary we are on.
Sometimes you have to make a decision as to whether you want to turn the heating on
or you want to just stay
in a cold house.
And all of this, um, has affected,
um, my mental Well, in
in a way. So these are the two,
things that I can I can talk about when it comes to the cost of living crisis.
Um, even the kids school DS have also increased.
Um,
the bus passes have increased, and you have to continue to buy all these things,
but the incomes of all remain the same.
Um,
so yeah, um, I can I can, um, mention a few of these has been
reasons why things have escalated around the cost of living.
OK, thanks, Mark.
Thank you for your time.
Ok, bye.
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