The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html

The poorer you are, the more things cost.

You have to be rich to be poor. That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't o...