{"id":800587,"date":"2026-07-14T04:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800587\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:39:27","slug":"inflation-has-been-creeping-up-how-are-americans-feeling-its-effects-consider-this-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800587\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation has been creeping up. How are Americans feeling its effects? : Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n People shop at a Lidl Supermarket on May 11, 2026 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Due to the rise in food insecurity from the COVID-19 pandemic along with rising inflation, tariffs and corporate cost-cutting measures, people are relying more on budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs instead of traditional supermarkets.<\/p>\n

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By now, you’ve probably felt it: prices are up.<\/p>\n

The spike in gas prices have helped push annual inflation to its highest levels in three years\u00a0\u2014 around 4.2 percent.<\/p>\n

With prices creeping up, how are Americans coping?<\/p>\n

For sponsor-free episodes of\u00a0Consider This,\u00a0sign up for Consider This+\u00a0via Apple Podcasts or at\u00a0plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Email us at\u00a0considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NPR’s Scott Horsley contributed reporting to this episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was produced by Kai McNamee and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane and\u00a0Zo van Ginhoven. Our director is Jonas Adams.<\/p>\n

It was edited by Tinbete Ermyas.<\/p>\n

Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People shop at a Lidl Supermarket on May 11, 2026 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-800587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}