(12 Apr 2022)
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Alameda, California - April 11, 2022
1. Gas price sign at Chevron station
2. Gas price sign at Valero station
3. Emerson walks to car in Grocery Outlet parking lot
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Emerson, Oakland resident:
"Gas prices are up obviously, everyone knows that. You know, so that's an extra dollar per gallon that I'm paying to get into the city to work. And then, you know, we have the tolls that just went up this past year a dollar, my eggs are a dollar more as well. So everything's going up at least a dollar, which, you know, adds up, of course, especially when you have kids and I'm going to get groceries."
5. Emerson looks through grocers in back of car
6. Close-up of carton of eggs Emerson just bought
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Emerson, Oakland resident:
"Obviously, I mean, COVID was pretty big hit economically across the nation and the world. And then, you know this, this war going on in Ukraine, that's jacking gas prices up. And then, of course, you know, you got a lot of companies that are are paying people a whole lot of money to live here and that jacks prices up."
8. Emerson gets into car with kids
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Emerson, Oakland resident:
"My rent is absolutely ridiculous. So ... and I just kind of see a kind of climbing and climbing and climbing to the point where I'll probably be just another one of these hundreds of thousands of people that's moving out of California."
10. Woman looks at groceries on shelves at Alameda Food Bank
11. Customers look for produce at Alameda Food Bank
12. Mercedes Vargas puts groceries in boxes at Alameda Food Bank
13. Close-up of groceries in shopping cart
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mercedes Vargas, Alameda resident:
"Milk and bread is very expensive nowadays. So if you're thinking you're trying to budget, you know, it gets pretty hard, you have to figure out, you know, how much money you've got and how long can you stretch till the next, you know, to your next payment. You know, it's very hard, very hard, especially. I see a lot of people, they have kids, it's even harder on them."
15. Mary Heimann shows groceries she picked up at Alameda Food Bank
16. Pan of groceries
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Heimann, Alameda resident:
"I come to the food bank every week because they have fresh vegetables and stuff that I can't necessarily afford. But also they have like tuna and rice that are always here that I can always fall back on."
18. Close-up bags of rice on shelf
19. Volunteer stocks mango packs
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Heimann,Alameda resident:
"I feel like people now need to know that poor people depend on coming here like it's something we need every single week and that the food bank provides a great service."
21. Customers pick out produce at Alameda Food Bank
STORYLINE:
Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier — the biggest year-over-year increase since December 1981. Prices have been driven up by bottlenecked supply chains, robust consumer demand and disruptions to global food and energy markets worsened by Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The government’s report also showed that inflation rose 1.2% from February to March, up from a 0.8% increase from January to February.
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