“Prices of groceries have gone up”
Madaline highlights rising grocery prices, the unaffordability and anxiety around international travel, and a growing fear for the future of American democracy. She notes that prices of groceries have increased, and though she had been planning to travel this fall, it is now too expensive for her to do so. She volunteers at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where she has observed that free admission has led to increased public engagement in a time of rising prices.