Price rises causing hardship for middle classes in US

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Dear Editor,
I have enclosed an article from the London Times captioned ‘Price rises send New Yorkers into dustbins for free food,’ (19.5.08) showing the hardship middle-class Americans are experiencing caused by rising food and fuel prices. If the middle classes living in the most powerful economy in the world are experiencing this type of hardship, I can imagine what the poor in Guyana are experiencing, especially the urban poor……

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