{"id":82960,"date":"2026-05-24T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82960"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:32:40","slug":"poll-most-have-cut-down-on-grocery-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/poll-most-have-cut-down-on-grocery-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most Have Cut Down On Grocery Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Concern about rising prices has reached a fever pitch as Americans sit down to Memorial Day barbecues across the country. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents said that they had changed their purchases from grocery stores to stay within budget in the last several months, according to<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/12\/politics\/cost-of-living-us-financial-problem-vis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another 59 percent of Americans said they had cut back on extras and entertainment.\u00a0More than three quarters of Americans, including 55 percent of Republicans, said President Trump\u2019s policies had increased the cost of living in their community. Nearly half of all voters gave the economy the lowest rating, \u201cpoor,\u201d in\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/us\/politics\/poll-trump-republicans-midterms-iran.html\">the latest New York Times\/Siena poll<\/a>, u<\/span>p 11 percentage points since January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779611560\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Poll: Most Have Cut Down On Grocery Spending\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Concern about rising prices has reached a fever pitch as Americans sit down to Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82961,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82960\/revisions\/82961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}