Living Cost Crisis Causes More Australians to Plunge into Extreme Poverty: Report

People walk past a man lying on the ground in front of a store begging for money in Sydney, Australia, on July 10, 2017. William West/AFP via Getty Images

A charity organisation has found that tens of thousands of Australians are experiencing food insecurity and cannot afford basic items amid high living cost pressures.

According to new research by the Australian branch of the Salvation Army, which studied 1,700 people using the charity’s services in the past 12 months, 93 percent of the respondents lacked money to pay for daily necessities.