Nearly Half of Residents Struggle to Pay Bills in California’s Riverside
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Among the 15 largest US metro areas, Riverside had the highest share of respondents facing key measures of financial stress.
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Almost half of households in Riverside, California, can’t afford usual expenses and about a third had trouble paying an energy bill in the last year, according to a Census Bureau survey.
Among the 15 largest US metro areas, Riverside had the highest share of respondents facing key measures of financial stress. In addition, one in seven said there was sometimes or often not enough to eat at home in the previous seven days, the latest Census household pulse survey shows.