United States: these Americans who inflation has made poor

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. At 45, Angelica Garcia has never been so impatient to vote.

“I’m looking forward to this election so much, because I hope we can turn the situation around,” she says. Previously unemployed, she found a job as a receptionist in a hotel. Poorly paid, she struggles to fill her fridge.

"I buy the cheapest things now. This mayonnaise isn't good, but it's the cheapest," she confides. Tuesday, November 3, during the midterm elections, Angelica Garcia will sanction Donald Trump because his administration has eliminated food assistance programs for the poorest.

"The Trump administration is trying to ensure that people like me don't end up there. Access to social benefits is more difficult and waiting times longer. So we have to manage differently," she laments.

“Food prices are much too high” This is particularly the case for Oscar Ochoa, 65, a former soldier who is now a bus driver. He has no choice but to go to the food bank to survive. Once a week, he fills his shopping cart with essential foods.

"The prices of food, especially meat, are way too high for me. That's why I come here. It really helps me a lot.

"They give me products that I can no longer buy at the supermarket," he explains. The community center in Tucson, Arizona, is welcoming more and more people. Since last spring and the war in Iran, the purchasing power of many Americans has plummeted.

“Before the Trump administration's cuts to food assistance programs, 150,000 people came to our center. Today, 200,000 people come to see us,” says Natalie Jayroe, director of the Community Food Bank of Tucson. In Arizona as elsewhere, it is the rise in prices which is mainly criticized by the American president.

Machine-translated from French