Almost half in new poll say groceries are harder to afford
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi food prices disproportionately hurting working class people. |
| 0:04.0 | One in three say that they can't afford the groceries. |
| 0:08.0 | Nearly 50% say groceries are harder to afford. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | So food inflation still up. |
| 0:14.0 | Ground beef still up 12.8%. |
| 0:17.0 | Eggs are up 10.9%. |
| 0:19.0 | Coffee still up 20.9%. So grocery prices are 30% higher than they were just five years ago. |
| 0:27.4 | Okay. And this is why Trump finds himself, I think we kind of accept now. There's enough polls, |
| 0:35.1 | including by people who support him. You put him together. He's in the low 40s, and it's trending downward. |
| 0:40.7 | And that is because he has not, not only has he not done anything to address, |
| 0:44.3 | he's making it worse by the tariffs. |
| 0:47.1 | And now these interest rate cuts, basically strong-arming the Fed into cutting interest rates, |
| 0:51.8 | he's making the signature issue worse, which is the |
| 0:55.3 | affordability of living. Yeah, I mean, this is a real concern for the midterms, right? Because |
| 1:00.6 | this is one of the major issues that the Republicans and Trump ran on in 24. This could really |
| 1:07.2 | influence the 26 midterms because there is it's not going to be immigration it's not |
| 1:14.1 | going to be crime it's going to be because the you can't afford to eat and you got to eat yeah I had |
| 1:20.3 | a long conversation this has been a week or so ago with somebody in the financial industry and |
| 1:25.5 | we were talking about what are governments doing and the |
| 1:29.6 | behavior they're incentivizing and so basically they sell to you oh we're going to cut rates and |
| 1:36.1 | look at how this is going to help you buy a home well okay maybe a little maybe some but, what percentage of the population is currently in the |
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