Poor Grapple With Inflation as Rich Spend This Holiday Season

As the holiday season gets underway, luxury travelers flush with cash have kept the Langham Hotel in Boston busier than expected, with gilded conference rooms reserved for meetings, upscale suites booked out, and the $135-per-adult Thanksgiving brunch sold out weeks in advance.

According to The New York Times, demand for a less swanky food service has soared across town, in Dorchester, at the Catholic Charities free pantry.

Beth Chambers, vice president of basic needs at Catholic Charities Boston, told the outlet that there are so many families using its pantry that it had to close early some days and tell people to come back first thing in the morning.