{"id":791246,"date":"2026-07-29T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:01:09","slug":"more-americans-are-buying-groceries-on-credit-heres-why-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791246\/","title":{"rendered":"More Americans are buying groceries on credit. Here\u2019s why that\u2019s a problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TYUNYP4VIRD4DJPS5GJMIE6JBM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The issue of affordability has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/27\/democrats-bet-affordability-gop-bets-trump-midterm-campaigns-final-100-days\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/27\/democrats-bet-affordability-gop-bets-trump-midterm-campaigns-final-100-days\/\">political fodder<\/a>, kicked back and forth like a soccer ball in a World Cup match. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5NBB72PKPBDL3JKM64WUSBRBIQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">But this is no game for struggling Americans. The latest Urban Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/many-families-rely-credit-and-savings-afford-groceries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/many-families-rely-credit-and-savings-afford-groceries\">survey <\/a>on family well-being and basic needs highlights a critical shift in consumer behavior. Last year, more than 1 in 3 working-age adults used credit cards to buy groceries \u2014 and many of them had trouble paying them off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issue of affordability has become political fodder, kicked back and forth like a soccer ball in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-791246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}