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‘I pay a lot more for fewer and fewer items’: five US shoppers on their food budgets
Guardian readers share how much they spend on food and the changes they’ve had to made in response to rising prices While campaigning for re-election in 2024, Donald Trump stood in front of a table full of groceries – bags of flour, cartons of eggs, cooking oil – and told voters he would bring down the price of groceries “starting on day one” of his second term in the White House. Over two years later, US consumers have yet to enjoy lower prices. In fact, due to supply chain issues, jostling over tariffs , wars in Ukraine and Iran , severe cuts in Snap (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, and the climate crisis , more than half of Americans say they’re struggling to afford groceries. Continue reading...
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Guardian readers share how much they spend on food and the changes they’ve had to made in response to rising prices While campaigning for re-election in 2024, Donald Trump stood in front of a table full of groceries – bags of flour, cartons of eggs, cooking oil – and told voters he would bring down the price of groceries “starting on day one” of his second term in the White House. Over two years later, US consumers have yet to enjoy lower prices. In fact, due to supply chain issues, jostling over tariffs , wars in Ukraine and Iran , severe cuts in Snap (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, and the climate crisis , more than half of Americans say they’re struggling to afford groceries. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘I pay a lot more for fewer and fewer items’: five US shoppers on their food budgets, Guardian readers share how much they spend on food and the changes they’ve had to made in response to rising prices While campaigning for re-election in 2024, Donald Trump stood in front of a table full of groceries – bags of flour, cartons of eggs, cooking oil – and told voters he would bring down the price of groceries “starting on day one” of his second term in the White House. Over two years later, US consumers have yet to enjoy lower prices. In fact, due to supply chain issues, jostling over tariffs , wars in Ukraine and Iran , severe cuts in Snap (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, and the climate crisis , more than half of Americans say they’re struggling to afford groceries. Continue reading…
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