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Nearly one in four Bay Area househoulds cannot make ends meet. That’s according to the United Way’s latest annual cost-of-living study. More than 600-thousand Bay Area residents can’t afford housing, food, medical care, and child care. The study also found that about one-third of all families throughout the state cannot afford basic living necessities, and that 97% of those households are considered “working poor”. The findings come from U.S. Census Bureau Community Surveys from 2014 to 2019, so the data reflects what was happening even before the pandemic.