Before a family in Miami-Dade fills a tank or pushes a grocery cart, they've already lost the budget battle. Rent, childcare, groceries, gas, and the slow disappearance of neighborhood businesses are draining working families dry across the area.

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"As Ebola spreads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, global health experts say the outbreak is a direct consequence of last year's USAID cuts — and warn the human cost, in dollars and lives, is only beginning to show."