What inflation looks like for two Texas families
Michelle Hallford has always enjoyed gardening. She and her husband have in part depended on their small harvest for meals since they began building their homestead in Iola, Texas, seven years ago. Now, she’s growing a larger vegetable patch to avoid the grocery store at all costs.
Ms. Hallford, a registered nurse currently on medical leave, isn’t avoiding food aisles because of pandemic caution. She’s wary of the price tags, as inflation soars nationwide.
In some sense, it’s surprising to Ms. Hallford that their working-class house of two – at times more when their daughters are visiting – feels the tremors of the nation’s latest financial shake-up. They raise cows and chickens, and they keep a lone pig fat each
