14 Apr 2022

Food prices up 7.6 percent in year end to March

From Morning Report, 7:21 am on 14 April 2022

The cost of living continues to rise.

Latest figures show food prices went up 7.6 percent in the year to the end of March.

It's the largest increase in more than a decade. Prices for fruit and veggies went up 18 percent.

Reporter Soumya Bhamidipati took to the streets of Newtown, to find out just how much people are struggling.