The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scary-being-america-now-south-120100270.html
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