Supply chain chaos, climate woes drive food price surge across U.S.

53% of U.S. adults report food costs as a major source of stress, affecting household budgets and consumer purchasing power.

Across the aisles of American supermarkets, a convergence of pandemic aftershocks, climate disruption, geopolitical conflict, and new trade policy has quietly rewritten the cost of daily sustenance. Since before COVID-19, food prices have climbed 29 percent — a figure that lands differently at each checkout line depending on the thinness of the margin a family is working with. More than half of American adults now name food costs as a genuine source of stress, a number that reminds us how quickly the abstract forces of global economics become intimate and personal. Economists see no clear repr

Supply chain chaos, climate woes drive food price surge across U.S.

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