In this edition, we talk to an Ottawa-based household of three about their problems accessing healthy meals and the hard health choices they’ve made while living paycheque-to-paycheque. Her family rents a condo in Ottawa and she drives a good car. Before the pandemic hit, the family was adjusting to a major lifestyle change. The health crisis, they said, magnified their lack of prospects, which in turn has limited their options for affordable, healthy food. The family is hoping the promised pandemic wage increase of $4 per hour for front-line workers will make a measurable difference.

Source: Huffington Post May 12, 2020 23:48 UTC