While inflation takes its toll on many households, so does the inherent goodness of some people. Global News kicked off the new year with a six-week Out of Pocket series, looking at the toll cost of living increases are having across the country.
Chantel Greene is a single mom who works full-time managing the car wash and laundromat at Fisher River Cree Nation, a three-hour drive north of Winnipeg.
On that income she supports her father and her 12-year-old daughter Chantay, who has unique needs associated with autism. Read more: Meet a Manitoba mom forced ‘to basically eat stuff from a can’ to survive financially Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists Greene has a budget of $1,800.
After a truck payment, car insurance, gas, and groceries — she’s in the hole $1,200 to $2,200 each month. That’s meant tough sacrifices to her own nutrition to ensure her dad, who is a renal cancer patient, and growing daughter are well-fed.