People don't realize how expensive it is to be working poor if they've never been working poor. It's a difficult trap to escape. For some it may be their own doing getting there, for others it may be environmental factors that lead them there or some combination of the two.

The fact is, it's difficult to find resources to escape and you're trapped in a difficult space where gathering momentum to make even small transitions could take years of time while barely staying afloat. This is the life of the precariat class.