It costs more for less.

This is a personal entry so I don;t have any links this time or anything like that, I just wanted to reference one of the articles I read call the "Cost of Poverty." It struck me as pretty true which is suprising; sometime you read a statistic or fact and it suprises you because you never thought about something a certain way but sometimes its something you already knew was true, you just didn't know anybody else noticed. Thats the way I felt with this article, it talks about how the poor have to pay more because heir options are usually limited to the most immediate option for resources like food which are almost always convenience stores. A close friend lives below the poverty line and most of the time he is forced to shop at the 711 next to his house because he doesn't have a car and can't go anywhere else. Every few weeks when he asks I'll drive him to an aldi's so he can buy the bulk of his groceries but in between when he asks me for rides he is shopping at the 711 for low quality stuff that more expensive than it would be at a nicer, better place. It just makes me sad that this is the case in so many other places and that this is the state of thing because like the title of this post says, they are paying more for less which is not only unfair because there is already so much burden placed on the poverty stricken that they are basically being kicked when they are down.