Hi there. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 87797. Eric 877973. 745. All right. I wasn't even going to talk about this, but this is kind of blown up. And so now I need to play some of this audio. I can't play at all. It's too long. But I got to play some of this. Listen.

As the U.S. experiences lingering high inflation and severe constraints on the supply chain,

families are being forced to deal with the consequences in their everyday lives. Evan McMorris

Santoro is live for us in New York City right now. Evan, you spoke with one couple about how this new economic reality is affecting how they feed their kids.

What did they tell you?

Well, Brianna, that's right.

The important thing about this inflation right now is, you know, there's a lot of reasons why it's happening.

But the important thing is where it's actually hitting. And it's hitting things like the cost of shelter, the cost of gasoline, like where I am with this gas station behind me. Gas is up more than a dollar since last year, and here in Manhattan, obviously up more than that, but up more than 20 cents from even last month. And the other thing that inflation is affecting right now is food prices.

These are things that you have to buy. So I went to Kennedale, Texas to go shopping with a family

to talk about what this actually means to live in America right now.

All right, let's go tackle this.

What does inflation mean for American families?

This is the story of the Stotler's Weekly Shop.

Good to see you guys.

Good to see you.

We have two biological kids, and then my wife and I have a big heart for adoption.

So we adopted a sibling group of two, then three, then one, and then we have a kid living with us right now who's kind of in a foster

situation. It feels like money isn't going as far as it used to. Okay, let's see what we can do.

I think probably in June it was about a dollar is worth a dollar, so now that dollar is worth

about 70 cents. All right, now we're moving on to dairy, which is right there. We started seeing everything going up.

Grocery prices went up, gallon of milk was $1.99, now it's $279. Well, when you buy 12 gallons a week,

times four weeks, you know, that's a lot of money. That's what I'm talking about. Thanks, brother.

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