Drought and food prices

Annie Lowrey and Ron Nixon, reporting for the New York Times:

“It is one extra kick in the stomach” for low-income families, said Chris G. Christopher, senior principal economist at IHS, a consulting firm. “There’s a lot of people in this country living paycheck to paycheck. This is not a good thing for them.”

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