A Harvard fellow told CNBC that a growing number of Americans “simply can’t afford to buy food” as inflation wrecks their finances. The fact that there’s a large number of Americans that simply can’t afford to buy food highlights the desperation that this economic climate creates,” said Marshall Lux, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. “Once people start stretching out grocery payments it shows the height of personal desperation,” he said. A recent survey conducted by LendingTree found that roughly two-thirds of Americans are concerned over how to pay for groceries amid soaring prices. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

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