00:01Having to choose between eating lunch or dinner, that is the reality of millions of working
00:05families in the United States, according to a study by the Urban Institute.
00:09High gas prices and soaring inflation are driving an increasing number of U.S. citizens
00:13to seek alternatives to meet their basic daily needs.
00:17Reporting from New York, our correspondent Henry Gamelo has the details.
00:23In major U.S. cities, cities like this are becoming increasingly common.
00:28Long lines of people at food banks, desperate to find a way to put food on their tables.
00:35The war with the rent and the skyrocketing cost of living mean that for millions of Americans,
00:41their paychecks simply aren't enough to make it to the end of the month.
00:46The price is going up for many working people, many non-working people, especially pensioners
00:52like myself, and it's a concern, it will last as long as there's instability in the world.
00:57Actually, I noticed the price is like, for example, before like $4.99, now it's $8.99,
01:03it's $10.99, yeah, it is increased.
01:06According to the most recent data from the Department of Labor, inflation in the month
01:11of May went up to 3.8 percent, a further increase is expected in the coming month.
01:18For economic analyst Luis Montes, the war against Iran has marked a turning point in the purchasing
01:27power of the working class, both in the United States and across the rest of the world.
01:34For example, you have the U.S. consumer has been severely impacted by this war.
01:40In this case, you have, for example, diesel, which is key to transport many of the goods
01:48that we consume.
01:50These are basically, they have a direct impact on the U.S. consumers.
01:55Gas, as I previously mentioned, has gone up more than $1.10, up to $1.50 in certain instances,
02:03that this is basically a direct impact on the economy.
02:07According to the AAA, the national average price per gallon for regular gasoline stands at $4.56,
02:17while diesel is at $5.65, more than double the price from a year ago.
02:24But for President Trump, neither the high inflation nor the economic hardships Americans are enduring
02:31seems to matter.
02:42It's just beyond repulsive to hear that a president is not considering the well-being of the U.S. consumer,
02:51just because he is trying to settle some political score, or even for his own ego, a word that is
03:01hard.
03:01First of all, that it has not, that the goals of the war have not been declared,
03:05that he's not even able to call a war a war, he calls it an expedition, and later plays around
03:12with semantics to call it a truce, to call it anything but the real thing, which is a war.
03:20While President Trump's priority remains focused on his international militaristic crusade intended,
03:27according to analysts to divert attention from such sensitive matters as his involvement in the Epstein files,
03:35millions of Americans who cast their votes based on the promise to make America great again,
03:42continue to stand in long lines, holding on to the sole hope that at least today, at this community food
03:49bank,
03:50the supplies will not run out. Pablo Daniel Joe and Henry Camelo, Tala Seward, New York.
03:59We have chosen an amazing time, and the new year of outta shears-永 Ö��.
03:59And thanks to Annoy, straight to Annoy here that,
04:00nation has been Trafficiji fashion.
04:01For the program, the first time overall,
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