Fixing a painful toothache isn’t in the budget of Brandon Crew, a 24-year-old maintenance worker and father to be.
Neither is food.
Earning $300 per week working at a local hotel, Crew said he and his girlfriend are barely “scraping by….”
Economic downturn forces many in Spartanburg, S.C., to seek help for the first time
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