The cost of food in the US has gone up at the fastest rate since the 1970s.
Shoppers feel the pain as wages fail to keep pace with inflation. How people vote will be affected by high prices.
The cost of eggs in the US has more than doubled since President Joe Biden took office. A bunch of bananas is 10% higher and beef and chicken prices have gone up 20%.
Edda Charbon is 78 years old. The New Yorker says she returns items to the shelves that she used to buy because she is shocked by how much it costs. It might cost a lot to fry eggs.
Demand for groceries surged and production issues were caused by the Covid outbreak when the price spikes started.
Higher costs were passed on by companies.
The war in Ukraine disrupted supplies of food and caused global prices to go up. The bad weather has led to poor harvests.
In the past, restaurant prices have gone up, but grocery prices have fallen.
Supply has to be in line with demand.
There have been some positive news on that front. The price of food and oil have fallen recently.
Food companies that have been passing on higher costs to customers while booking strong profits may find it harder to raise prices.
Relief isn't likely to happen any time soon. Coca-Cola and General Mills told investors in the summer that they expect prices to go up through the end of the year.
The future is very uncertain. Lower agricultural commodity prices, lower energy prices, that will certainly help, but there are a lot of costs that happen after the farm, like labour and other issues.
Americans consistently name the economy and rising prices as their top concern, and growing numbers say they are dissatisfied with President Joe Biden's performance.
Romeisha Lowery, a 36-year-old former Trump voter from Texas, said the rising costs of food, gas and other items had prompted her family to seek help from food pantry.
We are much poorer now than we were under the Trump administration.
The vice president tried to bring down gas prices by releasing oil. He hosted a summit on nutrition and hunger and ordered investigations of competition in the meat industry.
The inflation reduction act was passed by democrats. The law, which commits billions to fighting climate change and imposes a new minimum tax on companies, will have little impact on inflation.
Republicans have seized on inflation as a winning issue, with an advert for "Biden Burgers" from Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, in which he says the high prices are forcing people to cut back on their food purchases.
The November elections, which will determine who controls Congress and the leadership of many states, are known for low voter turnout, with parties focused on driving turnout among their core supporters.
The president's party tends to lose seats. Many Democrats are hoping that the elections won't be as bad as they thought.
There aren't as many competitive races this year than in the past.
The fight over abortion, which returned to the spotlight after the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion in June, has overshadowed inflation concerns for the Democratic base.
The economy is important to Republicans as the price of gasoline looms larger than food prices in the public imagination. Immigration is an issue that appeals to candidates' base.
Lee Miringoff says it is too risky to just run on gas prices. You don't want to be caught as a one-issue campaign person.
According to polls, views of the economy are tied to political leanings, with those on the right more likely to rate inflation as important.
Many voters have already made up their minds, and parties will be focused on raising the stakes in order to get their supporters to the polls. Efforts will be made to raise the language.
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