Cost of living: key vocabulary at C1

I work in a food bank, and over the past year I've watched the cost of living crisis take its toll on families I've known for years. It's always the same people who bear the brunt — single parents, people on low incomes, those who were already struggling before prices went up. They tell me they're starting to fall behind on their rent even though they work full-time. They feel squeezed on every si