It won’t be a happy Christmas for thousands of people across Greater Manchester this year. The region is firmly in the midst of its third winter of the cost-of-living crisis.
It's a crisis which has deepened to such an extent that Mancunian charity Resolve Poverty said people no longer choose between heating or eating.
They go without both. “I think the biggest change from sort of three, four years ago is where people might have talked about having a choice between heating and eating...
people haven't really got any kind of choice anymore,” Graham Whitham, the charity’s CEO, explained. “I think for people on the lowest incomes, the situation continues to deteriorate and that's the big concern.
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