{"id":5795,"date":"2026-01-19T22:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:28:14","slug":"australias-cost-of-living-getting-crazier-as-nearly-half-of-lower-income-families-worry-about-affording-school-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/19\/australias-cost-of-living-getting-crazier-as-nearly-half-of-lower-income-families-worry-about-affording-school-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s cost of living \u2018getting crazier\u2019 as nearly half of lower-income families worry about affording school shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A report by The Smith Family indicates that the cost-of-living crisis in Australia continues to severely affect lower-income households. The survey found that nearly half of these families are concerned about their ability to afford basic school essentials, such as shoes, for the upcoming academic year. This financial strain highlights the widening gap between income levels and the rising price of necessities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 7, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/07\/australia-cost-of-living-education-school-shoes\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by The Smith Family indicates that the cost-of-living crisis in Australia continues to severely affect lower-income households. The survey found that nearly half of these families are concerned about their ability to afford basic school essentials, such as shoes, for the upcoming academic year. This financial strain highlights the widening gap between income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}