New York City, 2022 - it's (literally) a hell of a town!
In our new, post-Peak Oil world, malnourishment and massive overpopulation has become the new norm. There is constant drought in many areas, and all attempts at using High-Tech Super-Science such as the infamous rain-bombs to mitigate the effects of the ongoing climate catastrophe have only made things worse. Thanks to the magical combination of resource shortages and Ridiculous Future Inflation, EVERYTHING is more expensive, and most middle-class families will only see real meat at Christmas. History diverges from our own in the early 1970s: on the bright side, there was no AID
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-state-budget-in-crisis-many-oklahoma-schools-hold-classes-four-days-a-week/2017/05/27/24f73288-3cb8-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.33854b239ac3
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/
https://www.ft.com/content/b99a81be-f591-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00
Welcome to trickle down economics.