Key Highlights
- Are their lives better today than they were a year ago?
- People from across the US and the political spectrum told the BBC about setting food budgets, applying for jobs and more.
- Here is what some of them had to say. Mary Anne Dagata, 72, Michigan This Michigander, a Republican, has seen the prices of basic food items fall in her rural area since Trump returned to the White House.
- At the beginning of the year, things were a lot tougher.
- Gas was really, really bad and then we had problems with getting food trucked in because I live in a rural area, so prices shot up real crazy.
