In New York, members of the exchange were coping by writing song after song that addressed the situation.
This is not ideal for my wife who is 5ft 2In (I am 6ft 3in), but she is coping by standing on a stool to brush her hair.
State legislatures are coping by reducing benefits, like dental coverage for adults, capping enrollments and requiring poor people to pay more for their care.
Pleasantime is coping by turning itself into little more than a packing and marketing operation, outsourcing much of its work to the informal sector.
The survey found neighbours were coping by sharing the cost of meals, including one group of women who clubbed together to cook a Sunday roast to ensure their children ate "decent food".
Its figures understated the likely level of people going hungry, it added, because they did not include thousands of people helped by non-Trussell food banks and soup kitchens, those who had no access to a food bank, those too ashamed to turn to charity food, or those who were coping by going without food or buying less.
"The troubling reality is that there are also thousands more people struggling with food poverty who have no access to food aid, or are too ashamed to seek help, as well as a large number of people who are only just coping by eating less and buying cheap food.
From the high cliffs of northern Manhattan to the ocean foam at Rockaway Beach, New Yorkers report they are coping by slamming down the phone faster, throwing out the mail sooner, or moving quicker to dodge the outstretched hand at the top of the subway stairs.
I've been coping by just sort of holing up in the house.
More and more, Hong Kong people are coping by living in smaller spaces.
