{"id":105112,"date":"2026-10-30T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=105112"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:24:01","slug":"surging-costs-of-living-top-us-voter-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/surging-costs-of-living-top-us-voter-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Surging costs of living top US voter concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE: Soaring prices for gas, medicine and other cost of living essentials are preoccupying Americans as they start to cast their ballots ahead of next week\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 84 percent of voters who have cast their ballots early listed the economy as their biggest concern this election cycle, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n<p>Kyler Daugherty, a 43-year-old health care worker, summed up the sentiment as he filled up his gas tank in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. I mean, everything\u2019s gone up, from food to transportation to gas prices,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel costs have skyrocketed around the world since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran in February.<\/p>\n<p>US gas prices rose 9.1 percent in September alone, according to official figures, a headache for residents in a state like Florida, where most people rely on cars to get around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt affects transportation, it affects goods, it affects everything,\u201d Matthew Moore, a 63-year-old attorney, said after he cast his ballot early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe transport a lot by truck. Air prices have gone up. My tickets home for Christmas have doubled since last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE: Soaring prices for gas, medicine and other cost of living essentials are preoccupying Americans as they start to cast their ballots ahead of next week\u2019s midterm elections. A whopping 84 percent of voters who have cast their ballots early listed the economy as their biggest concern this election cycle, according to a recent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105126,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105112\/revisions\/105126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}