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'It's not fun:' Soaring gas prices are walloping Americans but hitting lower-income hardest

Lee Bryant, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was already struggling to meet expenses because he lost his job as a human resources manager for a department store chain during the pandemic and had to take a lower-paying supervisory position at a rival company.

Then, gasoline prices rocketed into the stratosphere.

Bryant, 55, decided to give up his side gigs at ride-sharing and package delivery services since they no longer netted enough income after deducting gas costs.

That left him with lower earnings and high fuel expenses, leading him to cancel his annual road trip to visit his 90-year-old mother in Indiana and friends in Boston, forgo a 44-mile drive to a yearly strawberry festival, and drop his cable TV service.

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