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There are millions of people struggling alone in the cost-of-living crisis – but they’re invisible to our politicians, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fundamental issue I have with this article is that I'm not sure 'hard-working families' are actually being taken care of either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I think partly it's a language thing - politicians (who are supposed to represent us all) keep telling 'hard-working families' that they matter, and keep pretty quiet on the rest of us - regardless of what they're actually doing about it.

But the point the article makes too is that being single is disproportionately expensive already - cooking for one costs more than 50% of cooking for two, splitting a car or the deposit for a mortgage between two is cheaper, etc. So a cost-of-living crisis will affect single people disproportionately too - but there's no political recognition of that fact.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter, it's just code because they can no longer get away with "Undeserving Poor".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The "Average hard-working" family is pretty much in the same state as us Single people but not much between us. Now if you mean the average hardworking Tory family then yes they are VERY well taken care of