A new national survey reveals that rising prices are forcing working-class families to skip meals, delay care and rely on high-cost debt to survive.
Author: Angela Hanks
Angela Hanks is chief of policy programs at The Century Foundation. Hanks has extensive experience developing and advancing policies and narratives that promote an inclusive and expansive vision for the economy. She most recently served as the associate director of external affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she led the bureau’s external engagement strategy to ensure its policy agenda was informed by experts, industry stakeholders and consumers across the country.
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