ATTN, March 27, 2016: Study Finds That Low-Income Households Pay More for Toilet Paper
“It’s not a lack of financial wherewithal or an inability to sniff out deals that makes the poor pay more. Rather, the so-called “poverty penalty” results from an inability by low-income families to take advantage of bulk deals when they come up because they have to wait to make purchases until payday or until they receive their monthly food stamps (which can’t even be used on products like toilet paper).”