Gas prices hit $5 a gallon nationwide this weekend while inflation rose by the fastest rate in decades. NBC News’ Kate Snow follows three American families forced to make lifestyle changes just to make ends meet. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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American Families Struggle To Survive As Inflation And Gas Prices Soar
THANK youNBC for not ENSLAVING yourself to the SPECIAL ,VESTED INTERESTS!!!!!
“As a mom I feel stressed about…everything” same girl same
I cant believe people still breeding in this cruel cruel world. Bringing new child into this world to experience the same suffering, misery, torment, misfortune just like you is a selfish and irresponsible act.
Hopefully you will feel how live rest of the world
A lot of the same big money that’s supporting republicans is intentionally sabotaging Biden’s reputation wrt meeting our voters’ financial needs. Investigative journalists owe it to those not profiting from these attacks on our economy to disclose as many as possible of these offenders, mechanisms used, current profits being reaped, and current motivations for future gains (power & material profits) as relate to policies and politicians they’re investing in.
Get maybe smaller cars? Grow veggies on your garden? Shop with coupons? 2nd hand stores? It is getting worse, believe me. Coming Autumn and Winter is going to be bad. In USA your gas price is 1,20€ per litre, in my country is it 2,70€ per litre.
Americans keep electing incredibly uneducated naive dumb people so there you have it
I noticed all the people interviewed here are evangelicals who actually have caused this problem to begin with by backing Trump so you got what you deserved I don’t feel sorry for you
Middle class families are struggling I see it everyday.This is crazy gas prices are the worse ever but I remenber going through this before it will get better but everything takes time.
who to blame? Biden is sending 50 billion dollar to help Ukraine, who is going to help us? I thought Trump was bad enough, now here comes Biden. Vote him out!
Start growing vegetables in your garden. In many places there is sun year along. Grow in pots, cans or whatever you have.save money and it fun for the child
4 dollar a gallon is not much. In north Europe the prices are raised to 11 dollar a gallon. The same for electric, food and interest prices.
Cutting down on FANCY FLUFF is not the same as fighting for survival
Best way to save money is by not buying crap from stores.
Eating out will severely cut into your discretionary income.
80% of all dollars in existence were printed after 2020. That should scare the bajesus out of you.
Apple laptop and a nice pool. That’s a real struggle.
GO BIDEN YOU NEARLY BROKE THEIR NECK?????????? Do not forget to fall of the stairs………..
LOL. Stupid collapsing country.
People shouldn’t have voted for Joe now you get what you asked for!
Why is it the conservatives, who practically worship the “free market” and constantly bang on about “personal responsibility” are the first ones to blame the government and demand it intervene when markets don’t perform the way they like? 🤔
@PinkCrayon I think the whole world knows who’s responsible for the country being in financial trouble. Some people will never admit the country was in way better shape when Trump was running it but they won’t admit it even though they know it. That’s why Joe’s approval rating is closing in on single digits 😉
@SaveYourMoney nice try you Russian bot
Struggling to survive? Come out to the homeless camp in the park with me one day, I’ll show you the real struggle.
people are use to hyper consumerism in the USA they miss keep wasting resources and food
Babe, do not scale back on marshal arts for the little boy. …cause he needs to know how to defend himself and possibly you down the road. Too many crazy people in these streets.
Unpopular opinion: their lifestyle change is what they’ve should’ve been doing Al along. That goes for EVERYONE. For those of us who live below our means we dont feel it as much 🙂
She did a good job cutting that boy hair . Maybe she could do that to make extra $
Where’s the stimulus check … they lied no help at all
Baha, The UK £9 per gallon. Convert to dollars, that’s $10.20 a gallon.
This is laughable.
Funny how everyone in her house get hair cuts at home but her pay “$ 25 dollars “ for her hair cuts ? Lol 😂 first all kids are easy to keep busy with out spending so much money 💰 recreation parks has free classes sometimes . Try living of $800 to $900 every two weeks . Let alone rent is more the $2000 a month now , this lady’s are really delusional 😅😂😂🥹
Nahhh, gas is as high as $6.89 to 7 now
This comment is for the kids! if your hungry You shouldn’t Be ! if you feel alone You Are Not.
Does her son need all those toys?
Sanction Iran and your problems will be solved 🤣🗿📍
Filling up for gasoline complaining about high gasoline prices but drive Cadillac busses 😂
NBC has something to do with this with all the fake news they helped wreck the election….
All over the United States there are people living in houses and places that are uninhabitable I would be ashamed myself to post this on online with all the money they have they collect off of people that don’t have anything shame shame shame I am one of many people in need 😢
Average price of gas during the Trump administration was $2.59/gallon, which kept the entire economy in check.
This is what you get for electing Sleepy Joe. I’m so glad I didn’t vote for him.
Because of Biden
These people aren’t struggling, show some actual low income families who are actually struggling to survive and provide for their families
This “struggles” are actually an insult to real ones nice pool btw
I cut my hair during the Pandemic up to now.
You all voted Biden; you get what you voted for.
It’s awful.
Yeah I buy food and am behind so much on bills. It’s scary
Yes, everything is going up in price except our wages.
Just bring back Trump
Why not follow three millionaires and ask them why they’re not paying their share of taxes?
Who cares! Screw them. Why are you having children when you aren’t financially stable? When you don’t make a good income or have investments? Shame on you. Go hungry.
I thought this was a parody at first in comparison to the rest of the countries suffering 🤦🏻♀️
I feel bad that these families are cutting back on their children’s activities, eating out at pizza places and frozen waffles — but here’s the thing – A good portion of the United States (families, individuals, senior citizens, People who are disabled) are ALL struggling! Inflation has raised our rent, our utilities, our food cost, clothing, necessary necessities. We worry about eating. Why should anyone in America worry about eating? Families are living in their cars!!! Sure your millionaires, government officials, celebrities, our PRESIDENT….they don’t worry do they? They’re all fine, no financial woes. But regular citizens, normal families… are eating one meal a day. We pray our children can continue to wear the clothes they have (please God, don’t let them grow another few inches just yet!) We visit food banks where we’re only allowed help once every three months. With my own family personally, we can’t take our kids out for a movie, for dinner, for a family road trip to see their grandparents. We live off a food budget of $400 a month — basically $100 a week, and even shopping at discount grocery stores, we can only feed our children two meals a day. I keep wondering if the U.S. citizens of this country will eventually stand up to our uncaring government….but I don’t think anyone will. Maybe everyone’s waiting for some miracle to happen, but with the way our world has changed over these last few years, I don’t see many believing in those anymore either. It’s a shame, America use to be beautiful.
Now yall see how it feels to be black everyday.
Who’s to blame for this?
These families are not struggling. The first family has a swimming pool which would be considered a luzury to a truly struggling family. Having food to even eat is more important than eating out at Pizza Hut. I think you could have found better families to report on.
I wonder what a swimming pool costs to run. The aircon they need in Texas. The vet bills etc
The vibe from commenters on this video:
“I have less money so their lives being disrupted doesn’t matter to me.”
If you voted for Joe Biden enjoy the poverty and dispair you asked for.
These people will need to downsize their homes and change their lifestyles in order to allow their kids to enjoy what they used to enjoy
Thank God I never got married and had children. I may be single and lonely but at least I don’t have to worry about being completely financially responsible for someone who is unable to work for themselves for at least 18 years. Men, wear those condoms. Otherwise you will have a vacuum in your pockets for the next 18 years 🙁
Whatever happened to entertaining/spending quality time with your own children instead of paying other people to entertain your children?
This is pure evil because it is fully caused by the president!!!!!
I would like to point out that we were warned about this coming at exactly this time back when Trump was handing out his tax cuts to his friends. And now these large corporations price gouge and jack up the prices. Interesting how things happen that way
Yet they live in a luxury I can only dream of…
This all goes back to the lack of real financial education in our school systems, when families are doing well is when, say, instead of buying a very expensive Denali you buy a more moderate priced vehicle and put some money back for the rainy days that are ALWAYS going to come.
More spoilt Americans. Yawns
Good report, but they are not suffering/struggling. They have very nice homes, better than a lot of people. They are eliminating things that are not necessary to begin with, which does not equal struggling and or suffering. They are fortunate because they can afford the internet, have extra items in their homes to sell, which is a luxury in itself, because there are people who are truly struggling that do not have a house, food, car, or items to sell, in the first.
Ms. B. Churchill
Lol these struggling families live in some big homes…..
No one seems to be holding back on the takeaway pizza.
They have beautiful houses, nice cars, pricy laptop computer, and dogs. They are fine totally.
People NEED TO STOP 🛑 HAVING CHILDREN🧒 AS THEY CONTRIBUTE TO COST OF LIVING!!!!Come on. Okay 👍 thanks
Well in my town the restaurants stay packed, especially on the weekends. So it seems the American people really don’t understand real hunger. Go to a third world country. Then you’ll see what really means to struggle.
Buy ingredients not products. Have a list. These families have too much car for their needs. If the news want to show really struggling families, there are many out West because of the cost of living.
did you know it falls under the legal definition of torture to make people who work in food service work for less than the cost of living? thats right, if they have to come into work starving every day and are forced to smell food and see people eating food for hours on end, its considered torture. at least globally it is. like you couldnt do that prisoners of any kind. make people who are only able to afford a couple hundred calories per week constantly have their appetites engaged which makes the full body ache of starvation twice as bad..
I went through that sort of thing in the early 80s as a dishwasher at Denny’s and school janitor while going to aeronautics school in Tulsa.
Mortgage rates were over 20% so rent was too high and had to live in my van for a while peeing in milk jugs and taking sink baths in gas stations among other things.
I adjusted my personal cost of living saving over 80% of my living expenses living in my van.
To busy with work and study to whine and complain.
Learned who my true friends were.
Did not have kids I could not afford or to complicated things.
It was all an adventure and moved on to career and better things appreciating what I have.
We should legalise prostitution
People living in semi-mansions struggling to make ends meet. People living in small apartment units in Eastern Europe doing okay-ish.
Dollars and Dentists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJkI4LyBgg
Get back at me once people are really struggling. I still see sports arenas and stadiums filled to capacity, entertainment venues filled to capacity, fast food joints packed inside and in drive thru, dine-in restaurants bustling every night, traffic worse than ever, and the shopping centers and malls bustling with people every weekend.
It’s hard to sympathize with anyone when ppl are still living like gas is $1.50, minimum wage is $20, and inflation is back down to 2.8%.
Loving it! A direct result of Biden’s stupid policies. But, but, but, Orange Man bad! That’s the karma you get for stealing the election!
this is planned !!! engineered !!!welcome to the new great reset they wont stop until all poor people are ready for the fema trailers!!!
Please tell me this is a joke. They have to swim in their own pool and give up on Pizza Hut? This seems out of touch. They have cars and houses. And why are they making a point of them praying? Does it help? They didn’t mention why it was significant enough to show it twice.
These are not people that are suffering. You wanna talk about people that are suffering. How about go talk to the ones that are homeless!
Shame on Joe Biden and his useless Administration and voters hurting struggling Americans. SMH
I vote democrat I’m not homeless I have a Good job, car, home, savings and in college stop making excuses on y ur government sucks
Ok people let’s take out the struggle chart so we can see how much it’s ok for people to suffer 😑 for all those who think it’s ok because they aren’t doing so bad
Wow..THESE are struggling families 🤣🤣🤣🤣
battery 🔋low
They must recognize their own mediocrity as painfully typical middle class. I’m 38 own $700K home plus 7 digit investment. When I eat at Five Guys, they should microwave Hungry Man at home 🤣
It boggles my mind how out of touch I’ve been about how financially stupid the average American is. All they do is spend all their money and live far beyond their means. No saving or investing.
its absolutely ridiculous that even at 40-50k a year you cannot live in a decent apartment or house, have a car and be able to go on vacation every year. This economy needs to change.
Pizza Hut in the 80s was dope. Had salad and every pizza on the bar.
What, what about families without homes, can’t eat enough
Miss eating pizza hut time to buckle down and live within your means better start cooking folks traveling & all those activities will have to get cut people that’s not adding to your household success or come will have to get put on the back burner no cap💯👀🧠
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They are just fine. We live below our means and because of it, the inflation is not affecting our lifestyle. This is why it’s important to own your home.
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The Ukraine-Russia conflict and the government who control the senate seats which is the democrats are evil because they want the American people to be homeless by giving out free money to Ukraine in the war that cause Americans taxpayers dollars a lot money. Which that money they send to Ukraine which American people money it be use for America but our government it cause everything to go down hill in America.
You have to live within your means and it’s a challenge. Single parent with three kids. I have to really stretch my budget and when you have a little extra put it towards a utility bill or buy a gas card dont buy anything that isn’t essential
1981 when Micheal Jackson was still alive
People can’t afford stuff yet some people are driving Expensive Tesla’s
I’ve been hoping things get better for over 40 yrs and they don’t. They just get worse and worse. Stop voting for politicians with Ds and Rs after their names!! Vote 3rd Party.
I feel ripped off all the money I earned all year got sucked up by car payments and insurance this sum BS
CRAZY JOE S U.S.A.!