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Al Jazeera
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Lanier Isom

Cost of living: Becoming roommates with my son to pay the bills

Cara McClure in the apartment she shares with her 28-year-old son [Elizabeth DeRamus/Al Jazeera]

This story is part of a series of portraits exploring how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people around the world.

Alabama, United States – When Cara McClure was in elementary school, every year at Thanksgiving, the school delivered a box of food and a certificate for Buster Brown shoes to needy families in their small community of Powderly, on the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.

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