{"id":779655,"date":"2026-05-07T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779655\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:14","slug":"families-cut-back-on-hobbies-shopping-as-economist-warns-high-prices-might-not-ease-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779655\/","title":{"rendered":"Families cut back on hobbies, shopping as economist warns high prices might not ease for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORNING SHOW<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/morning_show\/\" title=\"View more stories about morning show\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"morning show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">morning show<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/money\/\" title=\"View more stories about money\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"money\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">money<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/consumer\/\" title=\"View more stories about consumer\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"consumer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consumer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/food\/\" title=\"View more stories about food\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"food\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/gas_prices\/\" title=\"View more stories about gas prices\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"gas prices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gas prices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/fuel_prices\/\" title=\"View more stories about fuel prices\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"fuel prices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fuel prices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/grocery_prices\/\" title=\"View more stories about grocery prices\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"grocery prices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grocery prices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/economy\/\" title=\"View more stories about economy\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/unf\/\" title=\"View more stories about unf\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"unf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/top_stories\/\" title=\"View more stories about top stories\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"top stories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville residents said rising gas and grocery prices were forcing them to rethink everyday spending, from shopping trips to hobbies and commuting costs. A University of North Florida economist warned the financial pressure may continue for years as wages struggle to keep pace with rising prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORNING SHOW Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM Tags:\u00a0morning show, money, consumer, food, gas prices, fuel prices, grocery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,2436,79,3188,723,990,279409,9967,57330,7310,6459,12013,52,46512,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-779655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-consumer","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-fuel-prices","15":"tag-gas-prices","16":"tag-grocery-prices","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-money","19":"tag-morning-show","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-unf","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116533384331115274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}