She helps families in need. As gas and grocery prices rise, she needs help, too

Dalene Basden volunteers at a local soup kitchen after her day job helping families who have children with special needs. Now, with gas and grocery prices rising, she's finding it hard to make ends meet herself. Tovia Smith/NPR hide caption toggle caption Tovia Smith/NPR Dalene Basden has the kind of job where she's never really off the clock. She works supporting families with special needs children in Lynn, Massachusetts, a mostly working-class and low-income city north of Boston. …