Here's how rising prices, especially at the gas pump, are straining family budgets and forcing residents to get grocery help.
One word: inflation. How those rising prices, especially at the gas pump, are straining family budgets and forcing residents to get grocery help.
Kate, who asked to be identified only by her middle name while discussing her need for aid, has been staggered by the sticker shock. Soaring prices have even limited the food banks she can drive to in Kearns, where she lives.“You have to pinch pennies somewhere else,” she said, “in order to be able to afford what you need.”
“The biggest chunk out of the paycheck is to fill up the car with gas at $60,” she said. “And this is a small passenger car.” This fiscal year, the food bank distributed around 54 million meals throughout the state. Though this has been consistent with former years, some other food administrators have seen an increased need for emergency food services.
With the rising prices of food, gas and housing, “people are under more pressure than they have been in a long time, just in terms of trying to come up with enough to get through the day or the week or the month,” Bailey said. “And that’s when people generally turn to food pantries. And we think that’s going to get worse.”
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