As food prices go up, Deerpark resident Gladys Murphy has quit buying cakes and started baking them at home. She also seldom purchases meat now, except for chicken on sale.
“I cry every time I go to the store. I pick something up, and then I have to put it down because it costs too much,” Murphy told The Epoch Times outside the polling site at Deerpark Senior Center, New York, on Nov. 8.
Both Murphy and her husband are retired and live on Social Security income.
They use oil for winter heating, and the cost of filling up their 275-gallon tank could go well above $1,500 this year. Typically, they need to refill three times during the winter….