An affordability crisis is sweeping the US, as high prices of food, rents and healthcare force lower-income Americans to cut back on necessities just as Donald Trump’s administration curbs government supports.
In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding Lehigh Valley, making enough just to get by has become a struggle.
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