Young outside of the home she rents with her husband in Flatrock, N.L. She says the two don't have much time to spare for each other these days.
Kelly Young is among a growing population of Canadians who work multiple jobs to pay for life's essentials, as the rising cost of food, fuel and shelter squeezes their budgets to a breaking point.
Wry humour — and unrelenting optimism — are helping Young survive the post-COVID economy that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have found themselves in. Young is among a growing population of Canadians who work multiple jobs to pay for life's essentials. A Statistics Canada report in August painted a bleak picture of personal finance in 2023: one in three people who work more than one job now do it because they need to, in order to pay for food and shelter, as opposed to doing so by choice.Young says she's buying frozen over fresh foods these days to cut down on her grocery bill.
An Abacus Data poll of 500 respondents in Newfoundland and Labrador, published last month, also delivered grave news: 77 per cent of people surveyed said they were either living paycheque to paycheque or falling into debt.Kelly Young says the rising cost of living has cut deeply into her household's income, and the family's well-being. Malone Mullin tells her story in the first instalment of the CBC Newfoundland and Labrador series The Grind.— it's exactly 4.
But family brought them back home when Young's oldest daughter had her first grandchild. "Coming back here after COVID and the cost of everything skyrocketing, it was actually a shock to our systems," she says.She's job-hopped since returning to the island, always trading up for a higher salary, better benefits. But with their rent in Flatrock at $1,800 a month, and her daughters sometimes needing a hand, there was little Young could do except work more.
But "it's a fundamentally different situation if that's what you have to do to make ends meet," Osberg says. "And that's what more and more people of normal working age, that's the situation they find themselves in more and more often these days."
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