Rising Costs Leave Americans Struggling, Food Pantries Overwhelmed Ahead of Thanksgiving

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00:00and

00:20good

00:30prices are ridiculous and that man that's up there in that white house needs to go

00:41he's killing us trump any other republicans right now they're eating better than we are

00:49i want i want him to to come and live in my house for one week and see how we eat and see

00:56how the showers are done we've got to rotate this rotate that so that people can fit and get things

01:02done you know i the groceries alone i mean and me being a senior citizen and i'm out here door dashing

01:20a lot of my customers are saying why are you out here but the people in the white house and the

01:28republicans democrats included they need to stop fighting and get down to the level that we are

01:40i mean i worked my whole life for what for me to be still struggling

01:46now a hundred dollars we're lucky if we get maybe a week week and a half the meat prices have gone up

02:05even chicken turkey who would have thought

02:15and how big is your boy you got a big family six all right we're really low on everything but i'll

02:21give you these four um do you want more the organic spaghetti right there

02:28all right this is heavy now let's go for some beans all righty it's breaking me how many other

02:35people are out there that need this food and they're here i saw a lady here with a newborn baby

02:42red beans that's what the chili beans are let's do the diced tomatoes yeah

02:51as many as you can give it you're going to get somebody to start eating those

02:56we can't food pantry our way out of hunger we we were in a hunger crisis and then it escalated in terms of

03:04uh snap um government shutdown increase in prices across the board with tariff changes so it's been a

03:11lot let's do some tomato spaghetti sauce as many as you can give me more people are coming to our pantries

03:20and more i think even more interestingly than that we're having more first-time recipients so right now

03:26we're seeing the 20 percent increase in people coming for the first time to a pantry

03:39man um i had to find a pantry because you know food is coming up so expensive and i got family to take

03:46care of man there's too many bills coming in yeah my two nephews just came through so we got them about

03:52like a couple months ago so now we got extra mouths to feed