A year of the cost of living crisis
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Sky’s people and politics correspondent, Nick Martin, meets some of the families on the front line of the cost of living crisis. Since February, Nick has followed three working households to see how they have been affected, witnessing first-hand the struggle to make ends meet.
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Producer – Ella Griffith
Podcast producer - Rosie Gillott
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku
Editor - Philly Beaumont
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| 0:59.9 | Just a warning before we start. |
| 1:02.3 | This podcast contains references to suicide. |
| 1:05.3 | If that's not something you want to hear today, |
| 1:07.8 | why not go back to our feed |
| 1:09.3 | where we have a number of other episodes |
| 1:11.6 | on the cost of living crisis. |
| 1:13.6 | It's a difficult time a year for a lot of people. It's freezing cold, so you want to |
| 1:20.6 | turn up the heating. Christmas is just around the corner and there's food to buy, plus the children |
| 1:26.6 | are expecting presents. But many of us are |
| 1:29.4 | struggling to pay the bills. At the beginning of 2022, the cost of living crisis wasn't a common |
| 1:37.2 | phrase. Now it feels like it's all we're talking about. I'm Nick Martin, Sky's People in Politics Correspondent, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:53.1 | Over the last year, my producer Ella and I have been following three working families. |
| 1:58.8 | Danielle, who's a single mum, Sam and Ataribe and their three children, |
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